For the first time since 2019, Trinity University’s Maverick Lecture series returns with Maria Hinojosa as the speaker this Friday.
returns this week after a two-year hiatus with a speaker who has persevered in sharing the untold stories of Latino communities.
Hinojosa, who has had a 30-year career in journalism reporting for NPR, CBS, PBS, WNBC and CNN, said she will focus her speech on the perseverance needed to report on hard issues. Despite facing criticism, Hinojosa has continued to report on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, where in some cases people die seeking a better life.
“You always feel strange at a new job, but then just added on to that, everybody was looking at me and probably thinking, ‘Oh, she was an affirmative action hire,’” said Hinojosa. In 2010, that responsibility became her motivation and led her to open her own company, Futuro Media, which produces Latino USA, a program for NPR. At that point, she had been in the field long enough to have gathered a multigenerational audience.
“Latinos and Latinas are a growing audience and population,” Hinojosa said. “That is irrefutable. In San Antonio … the Latino population is the majority. So anybody who is not engaging that population in any way, shape, or form, I’m kind of like, ‘What’s your future? What’s your future plan?'”
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