Named among the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine and a “trendsetter” by Hispanic Magazine, Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories has challenged a few of our country’s most problematic issues – hunger, drug addiction, and immigration. Nazario’s immense knowledge in immigration and spending over 20 years reporting and writing about social issues for U.S. newspapers made her a popular and devoted speaker amongst legislative, legal, and humanitarian audiences. Sonia Nazario grew up in Kansas and in Argentina and has written widely about Latinos from Latin America and in the United States and is well known for her national bestselling book, “Enrique’s Journey” that was published as a series in Los Angeles …show more content…
Her experiences influenced her concern and determination to write about social justice issues in Latin America, as well as in the United States. Nazario met Enrique when she travelled to Nuevo Laredo, a city located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. She chose to write about Enrique’s life experiences because his experiences were similar to what children go through in attempting to reach the United States in order to reunite with their mothers. At first, she was worried that reader would find Enrique to be an unpleasant subject and figured she should find more of an “angelic boy” to focus her story around, until Nazario’s editor from Los Angeles Times explained that readers would not be able to identify with angels. Instead they would be able to connect with someone that resembles them, someone who is not perfect and carries their own flaws. On top of that, Enrique was open, sincere and was willing to tell his story. As said by Nazario, “[Enrique] never told me something just because he thought it’s what I wanted to