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Sonia Nazario Keynote Speaker at NAHP 21st Annual Convention
Washington, DC--(The Hispanic PR Monitor)--March 2006--Pulitzer Prize winner Sonia Nazario will be one of the keynote speakers at the National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP)'s 21st Annual Convention, scheduled for March 29-April 2, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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.
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.
Her series of Enrique's Journey published in Los Angeles Times won her a Pulitzer Prize in 2003. Her book chronicles the journey of a young Honduran boy looking for his mother in the United States.
When Enrique was five years old his mother left her country headed for a better life in El Norte. Once in America, his mother sends back as much money as she possibly can and promises to return to her children as soon as she builds up a nest egg. But she is unable to return due to low-paying jobs. Eleven years later, he decides it is time to find her. He must avoid immigration officers, who would send him back home, and the smugglers, swindlers, who regularly steal from, rape and even murder migrants. Enrique risks his life, riding through Mexico on the roofs of what child migrants call El Tren de la Muerte (the Train of Death). Enrique's Journey is the timeless story of families torn apart, the yearning to be together again.
Nazario is expected to speak at the NAHP convention about the life and plight of immigrants, like Enrique, who now live in the U.S.
During the four day convention, other featured speakers will be: Hector Barreto, Small Business Administration Administrator; Gary Meo, Scarborough's Senior Vice President, Print and Internet Sales; Gilbert Davila, Vice and President of Multicultural Marketing for the Walt Disney Company, and Frank Gomez, Executive Director of Corporate Communications, Education Testing Services.