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An Hour with Sonia Nazario

About This Webinar

Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique's Journey, will speak with students about her book and the broader immigration issues. Please do not sign up for this conference unless you are a high school or university teacher with a class reading Enrique's Journey. You will need to register only once and then project the screen to your students.

Enrique's Journey tells the story of a boy from Honduras and his quest to find his mother in the U.S. It has been adopted by dozens of high schools and universities (70+) as a freshman or summer read, as well as by cities (16) that have community common reads. A revised edition of Enrique’s Journey was published in 2014, with a new epilogue and photos and this version was named the Best Non-Fiction Book of 2014 by The Latino Author. A Young Adult version of Enrique's Journey was published in 2013 aimed at middle schoolers and reluctant readers in high school; the Young Adult version will be published in Spanish in July 2015.

When a national crisis erupted in 2014 over the detention of unaccompanied immigrant children at the border, Nazario returned to Honduras to report an article that was published in The New York Times in July. In her piece she detailed the violence causing the exodus and argued that it is a refugee crisis, not an immigration crisis. After the article was published, Nazario addressed the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and gave many interviews to national media, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, NBC's Meet the Press, Anderson Cooper 360, and Al Punto with Jorge Ramos (Spanish).

Her humanitarian efforts led to her selection as the Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Award recipient from the Advocates for Human Rights. She will receive the award in June 2015.

Agenda
  • Welcome and Introductions
  • Sonia will answers questions submitted in advance
  • Sonia will field questions from attendees
Categories:
EDUCATION & LEARNING
Who can view: Everyone
Webinar Price: Free
Webinar ID: 6202ce5382ac
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Webinar hosting presenter Sonia Nazario
Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of this country’s most intractable problems -- hunger, drug addiction, immigration -- and have won some of the most prestigious journalism and book awards.

She spent 20 years reporting and writing about social issues for U.S. newspapers. She is best known for "Enrique's Journey," her story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S. Published as a series in the Los Angeles Times, "Enrique's Journey" won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2003. It was turned into a book by Random House that became a national bestseller and is now required reading at hundreds of high schools and colleges across the country.

She uses Big Marker for spring and fall discussions with students.
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