[Peace] 7pm Thu, noon Fri: Author, José Antonio Vargas speaks about “undocumented” status and the immigration debate

[Stuart Levy]

*Pulitzer-Winning Author, José Antonio Vargas speaks on campus about 
?undocumented? status and the immigration debate
*

  * 7PM Thursday, Oct. 25th, Lincoln Hall room 170
  * noon Friday, Oct 26th, University YMCA, Latzer Hall

*Contact:
Kasey Umland, Program Director, University YMCA
217-337-1514 <tel:217-337-1514>, kasey at universityymca.org 
<mailto: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 *a*nd 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 
<tel:%28217%29%20337-1500>.

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

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