In a career spanning 20 years, Sonia Nazario has reported on social issues for such publications as the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal.  Her stories have tackled some of this country’s most intractable problems:  hunger, drug addiction, immigration.

She has won numerous national journalism and book awards. In 2003, “Enrique’s Journey” won more than a dozen awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence. Later expanded into a book, “Enrique’s Journey” became a national bestseller and won two book awards.

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, who grew up in Kansas and Argentina, has written extensively from Latin America and about Latinos in the United States. She is a graduate of Williams College and has a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, Nazario received an honorary doctorate from Mount St. Mary's College.