Maria Hinojosa

Maria Hinojosa is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and founder of Futuro Media whose groundbreaking reporting on immigration Latino communities and marginalized voices has made her one of the most important voices in American journalism. Her career spanning NPR CNN and PBS has been defined by a commitment to telling stories that challenge stereotypes expose injustice and give voice to people whose experiences are too often erased from public discourse. Hinojosa’s presentations combine powerful storytelling with sharp media critique showing audiences how journalism can either reinforce or dismantle the systems that perpetuate inequality and why diverse newsrooms matter for democracy itself.

Award-winning journalist and author Maria Hinojosa is managing editor and host ofLatino USA. In addition to hosting each week’s show, Hinojosa is the senior correspondent for the Emmy Award-winning PBS newsmagazine NOW.

Before joining NOW, Maria Hinojosa was the urban affairs correspondent for CNN. Prior to joining CNN, Hinojosa spent six years as a New York-based correspondent for National Public Radio. During this time, she also hosted Visiones, a public affairs talk show on WNBC-TV in New York.

Maria Hinojosa authored the book Crews: Gang Members Talk with Maria Hinojosa(1995), which was based on her award-winning NPR report. Her second book,Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son, a motherhood memoir about raising a Latino child in a multicultural society, was published by Viking-Penguin in 2000. In 1999, Working Mothers Magazine named Hinojosa one of the 25 “Most Influential Working Mothers.”   Hinojosa has also been a contributing essayist in the 2004 book, Borderline Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas dish on Sex, Sass and Cultural Shifting, edited by Robyn Moreno and Michelle Herrera Mulligan. And most recently, she has contributed an essay to the 2006 book, Why I Stay Married.

Born in Mexico City, Maria Hinojosa is a magna cum laude graduate of Barnard College, where she majored in Latin American studies, political economy and women’s studies. Hinojosa resides in New York City with her husband and their son and daughter.

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