Maria Hinojosa, award-winning journalist and executive producer for NPR's "Latino USA," presented a TEDx talk at the first-ever TEDxPennsylvaniaAvenue event.
NPR's Latino USA with Maria Hinojosa, an English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective, is the recipient of the 74th Annual Peabody Awards, winning the category in Radio/Podcast for their "Gangs, Murder and Migration in Honduras" episode.
Executive producer of Latino USA Maria Hinojosa is the creator and host of "America by the Numbers," an eight-part documentary series airing on the WORLD Channel and PBS. The miniseries examines the national ethnic makeup of the U.S. and its irrevocable and fundamental changes, impacting everything from pop culture to politics.
Maria Hinojosa has covered the story of unaccompanied, undocumented minors since 1999, watching the challenging reality unfold. She told Latin Post the U.S. government has known about these children for over a decade — back when there were as few as 1,000 crossing unaccompanied each year. The numbers "didn't jump up to 90,000 overnight."
Maria Hinojosa, host and executive producer of NPR's "Latino USA" and the founder of Futuro Media Group, recently aired an episode of "Latino USA" entitled "Kids!" where she spoke with an anonymous whistleblower, using the name 'K', who shared their experience as an employee at a detention center.
