The Hopewell Valley Central High School Global Diversity Team is celebrating Global Diversity Day on Friday, April 19 at the high school. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sonia Nazario will be the guest of honor at the event, which takes place from 7 to 9 p.m.
Nazario is best known for Enrique’s Journey, her story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S. Published as a series in the Los Angeles Times, Enrique’s Journey won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2003. It was later turned into a book by Random House that became a national bestseller and is now required reading at hundreds of high schools and colleges across the country.
Nazario will speak about some of this country’s most intractable problems such as drug addiction, hunger and immigration.
This Global Diversity Celebration was established to promote educational diplomacy and to broaden students’ perspectives on the importance of respecting and nurturing diversity.
The public is welcome to attend the intimate speaking engagement, which will be followed by a Q&A. A book signing will commence after the presentation in the lobby. This event is free and open to the entire Hopewell Valley community.
