Sonia Nazario is the keynote speaker at the ABA GP Solo National Solo Small Firm Conference's Difference Makers Awards Luncheon. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $50 each by contacting Nicole Nikodem at nicole.nikodem@americanbar.org by October 14, 2011.
Sonia is on the board of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND). Immediately following her speech, there is a free 2 hour training session open to all on how to represent unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings.
Sonia Nazario as spent 20 years reporting and writing about social issues, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. 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, her story of a Honduran boy's struggle to find his mother in the U.S., entitled "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.
Expanded into a book, Enrique's Journey became a national bestseller and won two book awards. It is now required reading for incoming freshmen at dozens of colleges and high schools across the U.S.