She also was named a 2015 Champion of Children by First Focus and a 2015 Golden Door award winner by HIAS Pennsylvania. Her humanitarian efforts led to her selection as the 2015 Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Award recipient by the Advocates for Human Rights. She then spent months making speeches on the issue and recruiting attorneys to provide pro-bono representation to unaccompanied minors. 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). In her piece, she detailed the violence causing the exodus and argued that it is a refugee crisis, not an immigration crisis.Īfter the article was published, she addressed the U.S. 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.
of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Márquez Award for Overall Excellence. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Assn. “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. 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.
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Published as a series in the Los Angeles Times, "Enrique's Journey" won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2003. Her stories have tackled some of this country’s most intractable problems – hunger, drug addiction and immigration – and have won some of the most prestigious journalism and book awards. Nazario is a fluent Spanish speaker of Jewish ancestry who has spent 20 years reporting and writing about social issues for U.S. Nazario’s talk will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Her visit is being sponsored by Mosaic, Salve Regina’s student newspaper, along with the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy and the university’s Office of Mission Integration. Sonia Nazario, author of “Enrique’s Journey,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning account of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother – and a better life – in America, will talk about her work when she presents a public lecture at Salve Regina University on Monday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m.įree and open to the public, “An Evening with Sonia Nazario” is being presented in the Bazarsky Lecture Hall, located in the O’Hare Academic Center on Ochre Point Avenue.
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