An Hour with Sonia Nazario

Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique's Journey, will speak with students about her book and the broader immigration issues. Please do not sign up for this conference unless you are a high school or university teacher with a class reading Enrique's Journey. You will need to register only once and then project the screen to your students.

Enrique's Journey tells the story of a boy from Honduras and his quest to find his mother in the U.S. It has been adopted by dozens of high schools and universities (70+) as a freshman or summer read, as well as by cities (16) that have community common reads. A revised edition of Enrique’s Journey was published in 2014, with a new epilogue and photos and this version was named the Best Non-Fiction Book of 2014 by The Latino Author. A Young Adult version of Enrique's Journey was published in 2013 aimed at middle schoolers and reluctant readers in high school; the Young Adult version will be published in Spanish in July 2015.

When a national crisis erupted in 2014 over the detention of unaccompanied immigrant children at the border, Nazario returned to Honduras to report an article that was published in The New York Times in July. In her piece she detailed the violence causing the exodus and argued that it is a refugee crisis, not an immigration crisis. After the article was published, Nazario addressed the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and gave many interviews to national media, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, NBC's Meet the Press, Anderson Cooper 360, and Al Punto with Jorge Ramos (Spanish).

Her humanitarian efforts led to her selection as the Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Award recipient from the Advocates for Human Rights. She will receive the award in June 2015.