Joaquin Castro, a local of San Antonio, is at present serving his fifth time period within the United States House of Representatives, representing his house district. He sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in addition to on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Education and Labor Committee. He has been energetic on the boards of a number of nonprofit academic organizations, and has labored as a professor of regulation.
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is the creator of “The Undocumented Americans,” which explores the lives of undocumented immigrants throughout the nation, together with her personal. Since its publication, in March of final yr, the e-book has been nominated for a National Book Award in nonfiction; it’s also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times e-book prize. Her writing has additionally appeared in The New Yorker, the Times, Vogue, The New Republic, and n+1, amongst different publications.
David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998. He joined the journal in 1992, after ten years with the Washington Post, the place he was a Moscow correspondent. He is the creator of a number of books, together with “The Bridge”; “King of the World,” in regards to the lifetime of Muhammad Ali; and “Lenin’s Tomb,” for which he obtained the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Under Remnick’s management, The New Yorker has change into the nation’s most honored journal, garnering forty-eight National Magazine Awards. In 2016, it grew to become the primary journal to obtain a Pulitzer Prize for its writing, and up to now has gained six Pulitzers, together with the gold medal for public service.
Sarah Stillman is a employees author at The New Yorker, the place she covers immigration, incarceration, and extra. She joined the journal in 2012; that very same yr, her piece about labor abuses on United States army bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, “The Invisible Army,” obtained the National Magazine Award for public curiosity and the Hillman Prize for journal journalism. In 2019, she obtained one other National Magazine Award for public curiosity, for her 2018 New Yorker piece “No Refuge,” which documented how deportation can become a death sentence for asylum-seekers and different immigrants. Stillman launched the Global Migration Project at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism; she is a MacArthur Fellow, and a recipient of the George Ok. Polk Award for Magazine Writing.
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