Sonia Nazario
Sonia Nazario has spent 20 years reporting and writing about social issues, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her stories have tackled some of this country’s most intractable problems: hunger, drug addiction, immigration.
In 1998, Nazario was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series on children of drug addicted parents. And in 1994, she won a George Polk Award for Local Reporting for a series about hunger among schoolchildren in California. Nazario has been named among the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine and a “trendsetter” by Hispanic Magazine. Nazario has written extensively from Latin America and about Latinos in the United States.
In 2003, Nazario won several awards for her writings in the LA Times, works that would later become Enrique’s Journey, including the Pulitzer for Feature Writing, the James Polk Award for International Reporting, and the Grand Prize of the John F. Kennedy Journalism Award.