Sonia Nazario

Speaker Sonia Nazario journalist, author & immigration speaker

Sonia Nazario

Speaker Sonia Nazario journalist, author & immigration speaker

Speaker: Sonia Nazario

Pulitzer Prize winning author of Enrique’s Journey, and Journalist

Topics:

  • Unequal Justice: Immigrant Children & US Courts
  • Enrique’s Journey & America’s Immigration Dilemma
  • In Praise of Ganas (Persistence)
  • Making Ethical Choices
  • Narrative Writing: How to Construct a Compelling Story

Keynote speaker Sonia Nazario has spent more than 20 years reporting and writing about social issues, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She has won numerous national journalism and book awards tackling some of this country’s most intractable issues: hunger, drug addiction and immigration.

In 2003, her story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S., entitled “Enrique’s Journey,” won more than a dozen awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence.

Expanded into a book, Enrique’s Journey became a national bestseller, won three book awards, and became required reading for incoming freshman at 62 colleges and scores of high schools across the U.S.

In 1998, Nazario was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series on children of drug addicted parents. And in 1994, she won a George Polk Award for Local Reporting for a series about hunger among schoolchildren in California.

Speaker Sonia Nazario, who grew up in Kansas and in Argentina, has been named among the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine and a “trendsetter” by Hispanic Magazine. In 2012 Columbia Journalism Review named Nazario among “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years.” She is now at work on her second book.



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