Award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa will present a lecture on "Latinos in the Media" at 7 p.m. Monday, October 20, on the Knox College campus. The event will take place in Kresge Recital Hall in the Ford Center for Fine Arts, and it is free and open to the public.

Hinojosa, who also will visit Monmouth College earlier that day, has spent more than 25 years reporting on critical issues and focusing on the changing cultural and political landscape in the United States and all over the world. She currently serves as anchor and executive producer of NPR's weekly program Latino USA, which airs at noon on Fridays on Tri States Public Radio and can be heard on WVKC-FM 90.7 in Galesburg.

She also created and serves as president of the Futuro Media Group, a multimedia nonprofit production company whose mission is to give voice to the social and civic justice issues facing a more diverse America. Futuro Media is developing America by the Numbers with Maria Hinojosa, a documentary series airing this fall on PBS.

Hinojosa's journalism work has received multiple honors, including four Emmys, the 2012 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Reporting on the Disadvantaged, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award.

She has a weekly syndicated column for King Features/Hearst and is author of two books, Crews: Gang Members Talk to Maria Hinojosa and Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son. She was born in Mexico City, Mexico; grew up in Chicago, Illinois; and received her bachelor's degree from Barnard College.

Hinojosa's presentation at Knox College is part of the Stellyes Distinguished Lecture in Global Affairs series. The lecture series was established along with the Eleanor Stellyes Center for Global Studies by a gift from Eleanor Stellyes, who attended Knox from 1932 to 1934.

Hinojosa's visit is sponsored by the Eleanor Stellyes Center for Global Studies, the Knox College Program in Journalism, the Knox College Department of Latin American Studies, the Knox College Modern Languages Department, Lo Nuestro, M.E.CH.A., the Student Co-Curricular Enhancement Fund, the Greig Post Fund, and Monmouth College.