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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Sonia Nazario at Allegheny

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       MEADVILLE, Pa., Oct. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario will present two public events at Allegheny College on Monday, Oct. 25: a reading from her book "Enrique's Journey" at 4 p.m. in the Tippie Alumni Center and a lecture discussing immigration at 7:30 p.m. in Ford Memorial Chapel. A book signing will follow the lecture.

       Nazario's visit is part of Allegheny's Year of Global Citizenship, a series of events and activities aimed at enhancing our understanding of what it means to be a citizen in an increasingly globalized world.

       "Enrique's Journey" - the true story of a Honduran boy's quest to reunite with his immigrant mother working in the United States - is being read and discussed in several courses this semester at Allegheny. A national bestseller, the book is based on Nazario's Pulitzer Prize-winning series for the Los Angeles Times.

       Nazario has written about social issues for more than two decades. The youngest writer to be hired by the Wall Street Journal, she has received the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the grand prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, and the Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

       Nazario, who grew up in both Kansas and Argentina, is a graduate of Williams College. She holds a master's degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, she serves on the advisory boards of Catch the Next, a non-profit organization working to double the number of Latinos enrolling in college, and Kids in Need of Defense, which provides attorneys to unaccompanied immigrant children.

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