Sonia Nazario

press release: Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of the most intractable problems in the U.S. – hunger, drug addiction, and immigration. She is best known for her national bestseller, Enrique’s Journey", the story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S. She has been awarded for her advocacy for Latinos in the U.S., including efforts to increase Latinos’ enrollment in college and connect unaccompanied migrant children with attorneys. She has received two Pulitzer prizes for her work and has been named one of the "40 women who changed the media business in the past 40” by Columbia Journalism Review.

This LatinX Heritage Month Event is brought to you by WUD Distinguished Lecture Series and the Multicultural Student Center's Social Justice Program.

Please join the MSC and WUD DLS for An Evening with Sonia Nazario on Tuesday, October 2, 7:00 p.m. The lecture is open and FREE to both students and the public, and will end with a 30-minute Q&A. Doors open at 6:30 and a small reception will take place at that time before the lecture! 

Sign Language interpreting will be provided with CART captioning available upon request. If you need another accommodation to attend this event, please contact Kate Lewandowski at kate.lewandowski@wisc.edu. All accommodation requests should be made no less than two weeks before the event. We will attempt to fulfill requests made after this date but cannot guarantee they will be met.