Immigration Speakers

Sonia Nazario

Sonia Nazario, a projects reporter for The Los Angeles Times, has spent more than two decades reporting and writing about social issues, earning her dozens of national awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her series, “Enrique’s Journey,” about the experiences of Latin American children ...

Luis Alberto Urrea

An award-winning poet and essayist, Urrea authored the epic novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter, as well as the The Devil’s Highway, a best-selling nonfiction account of Mexican immigrants crossing over the US border. His latest book, Into the Beautiful North, is lauded for having Urrea’s ...

Maria Hinojosa

For 25 years, Maria Hinojosa has helped tell America's untold stories, many around themes of diversity and the cultural richness of the American experience. She is the anchor and editor of NPR's "Latino USA," a reporter for PBS's Frontline, and anchor of the Emmy-winning talk show One-on-One.

Richard Carmona

As the 17th Surgeon General, Dr. Carmona developed comprehensive knowledge of the environmental influences on healthy living today. He offers a close look at the epidemic of asthma in young children as well as other issues directly related to the state of our environment and how we can work towards not only a healthy body, ...

Ruben Navarrette

Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a nationally syndicated columnist with The Washington Post Writers Group and appears in nearly 200 papers including The Chicago Tribune and The San Francisco Chronicle. The second-generation Mexican American is one of only a dozen Latino syndicated columnists in the US, and one ...

Bay Buchanan

Former US Treasurer, political commentator for CNN, and veteran of six presidential campaigns, Buchanan gets inside politics and the election with her well-informed, fair perspective. As an author, she takes the most controversial presidential candidate to task in her unapologetically partisan book The Extreme Makeover ...

Carlos Munoz Jr.

Dr. Muñoz has been honored as one of 28 1960s civil rights activists "Who accomplished Extraordinary Deeds that changed the face of the Nation and gave birth to the Modern Civil Rights Movement." He was the founding chair of the first Chicano Studies department in the nation in 1968 at the California State University at ...

Judge Cristina Perez

Known as the internationally popular judge on Telemundo’s La Corte de la Familia and the acclaimed Cristina's Court, Perez is also a sought after lawyer with a practice specializing in immigration and nationality law. She's a 2005 Woman of the Year for the state of California and one of America's Top 10 ...

Michel Martin

The host of NPR's "Tell Me More," Martin has spent more than 25 years as a journalist. Her inquisitive nature and passion for the latest groundbreaking topics make Martin an interesting and informative keynote speaker on issues like immigration, race, politics, and journalism.

Cruz Reynoso

An internationally recognized civil rights leader, professor of law, keynote speaker, and proponent for government reform, Cruz Reynoso was the first Hispanic person to sit on the California Supreme Court. Currently a Professor of Law at UC Davis, he is an impassioned civil rights activist who speaks on everything from ...

Edward Schumacher-Matos

Edward Schumacher-Matos is the Ombudsman of NPR and the James Madison Visiting Professor at Columbia Journalism School. He also is a member of the Harvard University Population and Development Center, where he helps direct its migration studies program.

Leslie Sanchez

An author, political analyst, and former director of a White House education initiative, Leslie Sanchez is known for her straightforward style and in-depth understanding of the political and cultural landscape, both inside and outside Washington. Sanchez was an on-camera member of CNN's award-winning 2008 election coverage ...

Tony Plana

With an acting career in film, television, and theater spanning almost thirty years, Plana currently stars on the hit series Ugly Betty. A former teacher, he maintains his passion for education, serving the Latino community through educational outreach programs to schools while inspiring educators to use the arts ...

Patrick Buchanan

A senior advisor to three Presidents: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and author of The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization, Buchanan is one of the most recognized conservative voices in politics today.