Maria Hinojosa, managing editor and host of “Latino USA” on National Public Radio, and senior correspondent for the PBS newsmagazine “NOW,” will be the inaugural Summer Sunset Lecturer for the new UNM Libraries series. She will speak at the Student Union Building, Ballroom A, on Saturday, June 24, at 6:30 p.m. Her topic will be “Stories from the Frontlines of American Journalism…Immigration, Katrina and our Divided Country.” This event is free and open to the public.
Photo: Maria Hinojosa
Hinojosa has had a distinguished history in journalism as the urban affairs correspondent for CNN, the New York based correspondent for NPR, and the host for New York Hotline, a live primetime call-in public affairs show for WNYC-TV. She has also served as a producer for “CBS This Morning” and has worked as a producer for CBS Radio.
Hinojosa has written two books – “Crews: Gang Members Talk with Maria Hinojosa,” which was based on her award-winning PBS report, and “Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son,” a memoir about raising a Latino child in a multicultural society.
Other scheduled Sunset Lecture Series speakers are Luci Tapahonso, a Diné poet, writer and professor of English and American Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and Simon Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo poet, writer and professor of Indigenous Literature and Indigenous Literature of Resistance at Arizona State University.
Other Lectures in the Series
Luci Tapahonso – Diné Poet, writer and professor
“Saah: Luminous Beads of Beauty”
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
6:30 p.m.
Zimmerman Library, West Wing
UNM Main Campus
Simon Ortiz – Acoma Pueblo poet, writer and professor
“Indigenous Sovereignty and Identity: Land, Culture, Community”
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
6:30 p.m.
Zimmerman Library, West Wing
UNM Main Campus
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by kwentworth at June 9, 2006 03:36 PM