Williams Reads Author, Sonia Nazario, Speaking on Campus Sept. 30

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected]

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., September 16, 2015—Sonia Nazario ’82, the author of this year’s Williams Reads book Enrique’s Journey, will speak at Williams College on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance. The free event starts at 7:30 p.m. and is open to the public. A book signing will follow the event. While this event is free, tickets are required and can be obtained online at http://62center.williams.edu/62center/ or by contacting the box office at 413-597-2425, Tues.-Sat., 1-5 p.m.

The nonfiction book is based on Nazario’s Pulitzer-Prize winning series of articles published in the Los Angeles Times in 2002. The lecture is one of the main events for this year’s Williams Reads program, a campus-wide initiative that aims to foster new connections among the members of the Williams College community through a common reading experience.

Every year, the Williams Reads Committee works with the Committee on Diversity and Community to select a book that will stimulate community engagement and deepen the understanding of diversity.

Nazario began her career at the Wall Street Journal and later joined the Los Angeles Times, reporting on large social issues in the U.S., including hunger, drug addiction, and immigration. Enrique’s Journey is about a 17-year-old boy who makes the journey from his hometown in Honduras to the U.S. to be reunited with his mother. Nazario returned to Honduras in 2014 to report for The New York Times on the crisis over the detention of unaccompanied immigrant children.

Nazario grew up in Kansas and Argentina, and is a 1982 graduate of Williams. She has a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of California at Berkeley and honorary doctorates from Mount St. Mary’s College and Whittier College. She recently received the Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Award from the Advocates for Human Rights and was named a 2015 Champion for Children by First Focus.

Nazario’s talk is co-sponsored by Williams Reads, the President’s Office, and Claiming Williams. You can learn more about Williams Reads and this year’s book at http://sites.williams.edu/williams-reads/.

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