The College of Public Health is pleased to be a co-sponsor of the 12^th Annual Latinx in Action Week Honoring César Chávez. This year’s keynote speaker will be award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. She will present “Elminating Disparities” on Monday, April 2, at 6:30 p.m. in Callaghan Auditorium (N110 CPHB). Before her talk, a reception will be held from 5:45 to 6:30 p.m. in the CPHB atrium.

As the anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, NPR’s only national Latino news and cultural weekly radio program, and anchor and executive producer of the PBS show America by the Numbers with Maria Hinojosa, she has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad.

In nearly 30 years as a journalist, Hinojosa has worked for CNN, PBS, CBS, WNBC, and WGBH. She has reported hundreds of important stories—from the immigrant work camps in NOLA after Katrina, to teen girl victims of sexual harassment on the job, to Emmy Award-winning stories of the poor in Alabama. In 2010, Hinojosa created the Futuro Media Group, an independent, nonprofit organization producing multimedia journalism that explores and gives a critical voice to the diversity of the American experience. Futuro Media is committed to telling stories often overlooked by mainstream media.