Maria Hinojosa

Maria Hinojosa is the Emmy Award-winning journalist and anchor and executive producer of NPR’s Latino USA. Her nearly thirty-year career as a journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WGBH, WNBC, CNN, and NPR. She has won several awards, including four Emmys, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club. She is the founding co-anchor of the political podcast In The Thick. In her memoir Once I Was You (Atria Books) Hinojosa tells the story of immigration in America through her family’s experiences and decades of reporting, painting an unflinching portrait of a country in crisis. She shares her experience growing up Mexican American on the south side of Chicago and offers a personal and eye-opening account of how the rhetoric around immigration has not only long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, but also enabled willful negligence and profiteering at the expense of our country’s most vulnerable populations. In a starred review Publishers Weekly called it “A powerful memoir that doubles as an essential immigration primer.”