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Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence.
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The newspaper series won more than a dozen national journalism awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. In 2002, Nazario finished work on a six-part series, entitled "Enrique's Journey", about the experiences of Latin American children who immigrate to join their parents in the U.S. Her photographer for the project, Clarence Williams, won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for photos taken to accompany the story. In 1998, Nazario was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her story about what life was like for the children of drug addicts. In 1995, the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to the Staff of the Los Angeles Times for local reporting of spot news for their 1994 coverage of the first day of the Los Angeles earthquake. The following year, she won a George Polk Award for Local Reporting for a series about hunger among schoolchildren in California. In 1993, Nazario left the Wall Street Journal for a second time and joined the Los Angeles Times to write about social issues, including those dealing with Latinos and Latin America. 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. 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. Mary's College in 2010, and the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) from Whittier College in 2013. She has received the honorary doctorate from Mount St. Nazario is a graduate of Williams College and holds a master's degree in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She permanently moved to the United States during the Dirty War in Argentina.
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Nazario was born in Madison, Wisconsin, but grew up both in Kansas and Argentina. "Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother" was published as a book in 2006 and became a national bestseller. In 2003, while working at the Los Angeles Times, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her six-part series titled "Enrique's Journey," which followed the harrowing story of a young Honduran boy's journey to the US when he was only five years old. She has spent her career writing about social and social justice issues, focusing especially on immigration and immigrant children who come to the United States from Central America.
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Sonia Nazario (born Septemin Madison, Wisconsin) is an American journalist mostly known for her work at Los Angeles Times. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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