[IMC] PSA/PRESS RELEASE Pulitzer-Winning Author, José Antonio Vargas speaks on campus about “undocumented” status and the immigration debate

[Megan Flowers]

*PSA/PRESS RELEASE
Pulitzer-Winning Author, José Antonio Vargas speaks on campus about
“undocumented” status and the immigration debate

Contact:
Kasey Umland, Program Director, University YMCA
217-337-1514, kasey at universityymca.org

Website: http://www.universityymca.org/friday_forum/

On Friday, October 26th at 12:00 noon, the University YMCA will host
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist José Antonio Vargas to talk about his
experiences as an undocumented immigrant and how debate over
immigration policies
is shaping the 2012 election season.

Since the beginning of his career in journalism eight years ago, Vargas has
written hundreds of stories — including covering the 2008 presidential
campaign for The Washington Post; profiling Al Gore for Rolling Stone and
Mark Zuckerberg for The New Yorker; writing and producing a documentary on
the AIDS epidemic in the nation's capital; and winning a Pulitzer Prize for
helping cover the Virginia Tech massacre.  A little over a year ago, Vargas
wrote a groundbreaking essay in the New York Times Sunday Magazine
revealing his "undocumented immigrant" status. Since then, he founded
Define American and has worked to facilitate dialogue about the DREAM Act
and immigration issues.

The lectur*e *is the seventh in a semester long series that examines the
major issues of the 2012 election season.  All lectures are free and open
to the public.

Vargas will also speak on campus the previous evening  at 7PM, location: 1092
Lincoln Hall (**702 South Wright Street Urbana, IL) to discuss Define
American, a non-profit organization that seeks to elevate the conversation
around immigration.  This lecture coincides with the ongoing “Do I Look
Like An American to You?” t-shirt campaign sponsored by Interfaith in
Action, La Colectiva, and Amnesty International.  T-shirts will be on sale
throughout the month of October at the University YMCA.  For more
information, contact Carol at (217) 337-1500.

Read more:
http://www.voxxi.com/jose-antonio-vargas-defined-american/#ixzz28GxF82TS*
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