Maria Hinojosa, an award-winning trailblazer in news and investigative journalism, will kick off Case Western Reserve University’s “Power of Diversity Fall Lecture Series” with an on-campus lecture, “Frontlines: Latinos & Immigration,” on Oct. 6.
The event, at 4:30 p.m. at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, is free and open to the public. RSVP to diversity-rsvp@case.edu. For more information, visit case.edu/diversity or email janetta.hammock@case.edu.
For more than 25 years, Hinojosa has reported on critical issues and the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad, earning four Emmy Awards; the 2012 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism; the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Reporting on the Disadvantaged; the Studs Terkel Community Media Award; and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club for best documentary for Child Brides: Stolen Lives.
Hinojosa is anchor and executive producer of National Public Radio’s long-running weekly program Latino USA, considered the program of record for Latino news and culture.
She writes a weekly syndicated column for King Features/Hearst and has written two books, including a motherhood memoir, Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son.
Hinojosa has worked as an anchor and reporter for PBS’ Need To Know series and the talk show Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One from WGBH/La Plaza, as senior correspondent at Now on PBS and for NPR, and, for eight years, as CNN's urban affairs correspondent.
Presented by Case Western Reserve’s Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity, the fall lecture series, which features one national speaker and two university scholars, continues with:
- Camille Warner, assistant professor at CWRU’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, who will discuss “Support and Social Equality: In the Classroom and the Community,” at 3 p.m. on Oct. 15, at Tinkham Veale University Center.
- Carlos E. Crespo-Hernandez, associate professor of chemistry and co-director of the Center for Chemical Dynamics at Case Western Reserve. He will present “Diversity in the Physical Sciences: A Personal Journey” at 3 p.m. on Nov. 9 at Tinkham Veale University Center.
