Location: Washington Convention Center, Ballroom ABC
Maria Hinojosa’s nearly thirty-year career as a Pulitzer Prize winning-journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WGBH, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchoring and executive producing the Peabody Award-winning show "Latino USA," distributed by PRX.
She will discuss “Once I Was You,” a memoir that shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago. In the book, she offers a personal and illuminating account of how the rhetoric around immigration has not only long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, but also sanctioned willful negligence and profiteering at the expense of our country’s most vulnerable populations. The memoir is also published in Spanish, as “Una vez fui tú.” Both versions are currently available.
In “Once I Was You,” the Young Readers Edition, available August 2022, Hinojosa combines stories from her life, beginning with her family’s harrowing experience of immigration, with truths about the United States’ long and complicated relationship with the people who cross its borders, by choice or by force.
There will be a book signing immediately following the session. Complimentary books will be available.
