Image - Maria Hinojosa
Image - Maria Hinojosa

NPR’s Maria Hinojosa: Latino USA

Discussions of immigration can feel not just deeply impersonal, particularly at the national level, but even negligent of the human cost of harsh immigration policies. In her new book, Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in America, journalist Maria Hinojosa shares a personal account of America’s greater immigration crisis. Hinojosa discusses her perspective through her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side, her early reporting on immigration detention camps and her varied experiences as the host of NPR’s "Latino USA" radio program.

An Emmy award-winning journalist and a leading voice in the Latinx community, Hinojosa brings her more than 30 years of experience in journalism to her crucial perspective on this urgent issue. Join Hinojosa at INFORUM, where she will discuss how the problems facing America’s immigration system are not accidental, but the result of years of broken governance. This conversation will be moderated by Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, CEO of the Latino Community Foundation.

 

Note: This program contains explicit language.

Speakers
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Maria Hinojosa

Founder, President and CEO, Futuro Media Group; Anchor and Executive Producer, NPR’s "Latino USA"; Author, Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

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Jacqueline Martinez Garcel

CEO, Latino Community Foundation—Moderator