Rubén Martínez, Emmy Award-Winning Journalist and Author
Thursday, September 17
7:00pm

Truth and Consequences on the Mexico-United States Border: An Overview – A Series Examining Issues Critical to Human Rights and Environment

A reception and book signing with Rubén Martínez will follow the program.

Rubén Martínez, journalist, author, and musician, was born in Los Angeles to a Mexican American father and a Salvadoran mother.  He has been a writer for LA Weekly, a contributing essayist for National Public Radio, and a TV host for Life & Times, for which he won an Emmy Award.  As a political commentator, he has made appearances on Nightline, Politically Incorrect, and Frontline.  His books include Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico; The New Americans; and Crossing Over: A Mexican Family over the Migrant Trail.  His work covers themes including immigrant life and globalization, the cultural and political history of Los Angeles, the civil wars of the 1980s in Central America, and Mexican politics and culture.  He currently holds the Fletcher Jones Chair in Literature & Writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and is a former faculty member at the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program.

Mr. Martínez will inaugurate the Chapel's 2009-2010 season and will be the first lecture in a four part series examining issues critical to human rights and environment along the Mexico-United States Border.

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