Maria L. Hinojosa

Maria Hinojosa is the Founder, President, and CEO of Futuro Media Group, a multimedia nonprofit production company based in Harlem whose mission is giving voice to the social and civic justice issues facing a more diverse America. She is currently the anchor and executive producer of NPR’s long-running weekly program, Latino USA, produced by Futuro. From 2012 to 2018 Hinojosa served as the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. Hinojosa has worked as an anchor and reporter for PBS’ Need to Know series and the talk show Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One from WGBH/La Plaza, as senior correspondent at Now on PBS and for NPR, and for eight years as CNN's urban affairs correspondent. In October 2011, she was the first Latina to anchor a Frontline report, “Lost in Detention,” exploring abuse at immigrant detention facilities. Hinojosa has documented hundreds of important stories - from immigrant work camps in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, to teen girl victims of on-the-job sexual harassment, to the poor in Alabama, and youth violence in urban communities. She is the author of three books and has won dozens of awards, including four Emmys, the John Chancellor Award, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club, and the Ruben Salazar Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAHJ.