Sonia Nazario will talk about Enrique’s Journey: The Story of Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother on Monday, November 28th, at 7 p.m. in the Young Auditorium. It’s the last fall 2011 Contemporary Issues Lecture.
From the lecture series web site:
“Sonia Nazario has spent 20 years reporting and writing about social issues. 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 Association of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence. In 1994, she won a George Polk Award for Local Reporting for a series about hunger among schoolchildren in California. Nazario has been named among the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine. She has a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley and an honorary doctorate from Mount St. Mary’s College.” http://www.enriquesjourney.com
Looking for more on children and immigration? Search HALCat (Harold Andersen Library’s catalog) to find titles such as Growing up Hispanic: Health and development of children of immigrants (3rd-floor Main Collection, E184.S75 G76 2010)
Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.
