E.N. Thompson Forum: SONIA NAZARIO
Humanities Nebraska Governor’s Lecture in the Humanities
7:30 pm
Lied Center for Performing Arts
301 N 12th St
Lincoln NE 68508
Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: LIED
Contact:
Katie Cervantes, (402) 472-4747, enthompson@unl.edu
Immigration | “Enrique’s Journey and America’s Immigration Dilemma”
PRE-TALK: 7:00 p.m., Steinhart Room, Lied Center, by David Zaritzky Brown, Managing Partner, Brown Immigration Law
Sonia Nazario is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of this country’s most challenging problems, including hunger, drug addiction, and immigration. She spent 20 years reporting about social issues for newspapers including the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. Her best-selling book “Enrique’s Journey” relates the story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S. Originally published as a series in the Los Angeles Times, “Enrique’s Journey” has won more than a dozen prestigious journalism and book awards, including the Pulitzer, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, and the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. It is required reading at hundreds of universities and high schools across the country.
Sponsored by the Office of Academic Success & Intercultural Services.
PRE-TALK: 7:00 p.m., Steinhart Room, Lied Center, by David Zaritzky Brown, Managing Partner, Brown Immigration Law
Sonia Nazario is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of this country’s most challenging problems, including hunger, drug addiction, and immigration. She spent 20 years reporting about social issues for newspapers including the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. Her best-selling book “Enrique’s Journey” relates the story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S. Originally published as a series in the Los Angeles Times, “Enrique’s Journey” has won more than a dozen prestigious journalism and book awards, including the Pulitzer, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, and the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. It is required reading at hundreds of universities and high schools across the country.
Sponsored by the Office of Academic Success & Intercultural Services.
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This event originated in E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues.