Maria Hinojosa | Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn Country

Sep
10:00pm
Maria Hinojosa | Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn Country

By Princeton Public Library
Please note, To watch the the Spanish Simulcast:
Interpretación simultánea en español: "Fui Como Tu", Una Conversación con Maria Hinojosa, Khristina Gonzalez de Princeton University y Elizabeth Cohen
Emmy Award-winning journalist and anchor of NPR's Latino USA, Maria Hinojosa, tells the story of immigration in America through her family's experiences and decades of reporting, painting an unflinching portrait of a country in crisis.
Through her memoir, Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America, Hinojosa relates the history of US immigration policy that has brought us to where we are today as she shares her deeply personal story.
For thirty years, Hinojosa has reported on stories and communities in America that often go ignored. Bestselling author, Julia Alvarez, has called her 'one of the most important, respected, and beloved cultural leaders in the Latinx community."
Ms. Hinojosa will be in conversation with Princeton University's Khristina Gonzalez and Elizabeth Cohen.
Maria Hinojosa
Maria Hinojosa’s nearly thirty-year career as a journalist includes
reporting for PBS, CBS, WGBH, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchoring and executive producing the Peabody Award–winning show Latino USA, distributed by NPR. She is a frequent guest on MSNBC, and has won several awards, including four Emmys, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club. In 2010, she founded Futuro Media, an independent nonprofit organization with the mission of producing multimedia content from a POC perspective. Through the breadth of her work and as the founding co-anchor of the political podcast In The Thick,  Hinojosa has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and
abroad.
She lives with her family in Harlem in New York City. Follow Maria on Twitter at @Maria_Hinojosa and Facebook at Maria.Hinojosa.718
Khristina Gonzalez
Khristina Gonzalez is Associate Dean of the College and Director of Programs for Access and Inclusion at Princeton University. She is responsible for programs and initiatives within the Office of the Dean of the College that support and advance Princeton’s commitment to an inclusive undergraduate student body.
Elizabeth F. Cohen
Elizabeth F. Cohen is Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University and Associate Editor of the American Journal of Political Science. She is the 2020-2021 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at Princeton University, and her research interests focus on immigration, contemporary political theory, justice, citizenship and rights.
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Special thanks to our community co-sponsors at The Hun School and The Pace Center for Civic Engagement for their collaboration and to Labyrinth Books for their support of this event.
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