Sonia Nazario
Journalist, Author
1960 –
Who is Sonia Nazario?
Sonia Nazario has written about social issues for more than two decades, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She holds the distinctions of winning the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, and of being the youngest writer to be hired by the Wall Street Journal.
She grew up both in Kansas and Argentina. She permanently moved to the U.S. as the Dirty War happening in Argentina.
She is a graduate of Williams College and holds a master's degree in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She received an honorary doctorate in 2010 from Mt. St. Mary’s College.
Nazario serves on the advisory boards of the University of North Texas Mayborn Literary Non-fiction Writer's Conference and of Catch the Next, a non-profit working to double the number of Latinos enrolling in college. She is also on the board of Kids In Need of Defense, a non-profit launched by Microsoft and Angelina Jolie to provide pro-bono attorneys to unaccompanied immigrant children.
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- Born
- Sep 8, 1960
Madison - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Williams College
- University of California, Berkeley
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on July 23, 2013
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