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March 27, 2007
4:30 pm
Konover Auditorium
Sonia Nazario will be visting UCONN to discuss her latest research and the harrowing journey that an estimated 48,000 immigrant children take each year to enter the United States from Central America and Mexico.
Sonia 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. 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.
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