The first company to produce Spanish audiobooks in the U.S., Nueva Onda’s mission since 1989 is to provide Spanish speakers with valuable literary and practical content — titles that range from Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, adapted from the guidebook by noted expert Allan Wernick, to a five-theme collection on the Golden Age of Spain which includes Cervantes and Calderón de la Barca; from the Mexican literary masterpiece Los de Abajo (The Underdogs) by Mariano Azuela to translations of stories by Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe; and from the poetry of Rubén Darío and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer to parenting, alcohol abuse, job-hunting and stress-busting techniques and sex education.

Fortuna Calvo-Roth, Principal, taught Politics at New York University and Hofstra University. She was director of public affairs of WJIT Radio in New York, where she produced a consumer awareness program; editor-in-chief of Visión, the Latin American newsmagazine; and a partner of Channel 2 in Lima, Perú.

Stephen I. Roth, Principal and general manager, joined the company soon after graduating from the School of Visual Arts in New York.