Author speaks about migrations

The College of Interdisciplinary Studies is kicking off its year-long focus on the theme of “migration” with a visit by author Sonia Nazario, who will come to campus to talk about her book Enrique’s Journey .

Nazario will speak at Grand Valley at 6 p.m. on October 6, in Room 2204 of the Kirkhof Center.

Nazario, a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times , has spent more than two decades reporting and writing about social issues, earning her dozens of national awards.

Enrique’s Journey is based on a newspaper series that 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. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence.

In 1998, she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series on children of drug addicted parents. And in 1994, she won a George Polk Award for Local Reporting for a series about hunger among schoolchildren in California.

Nazario, who grew up in Kansas and in Argentina, has written extensively from Latin America and about Latinos in the United States. She began her career at the Wall Street Journal , where she reported from four bureaus: New York, Atlanta, Miami, and Los Angeles. In 1993, she joined the Los Angeles Times . She is a graduate of Williams College and has a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.