Background
Nazario, Sonia was born on September 8, 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
Nazario, Sonia was born on September 8, 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
Bachelor in History, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1982. Master of Arts in Latin American studies, University California, Berkeley, 1988.
She has written about social issues for more than two decades, most recently as a projects reporter for the Times. She holds the distinctions of winning the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, and of being the youngest writer to be hired by the Wall Street Journal. She is currently working on her second book as well as traveling around the country speaking on the issue of unaccompanied immigrant children.
She permanently moved to the United States during the Dirty War in Argentina.
Nazario is a graduate of Williams College and holds a master"s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She received an honorary doctorate in 2010 from Mount Saint Mary"s College.
Nazario serves on the advisory boards of the University of North Texas Mayborn Literary Non-fiction Writer"s Conference and of Catch the Next, a non-profit working to double the number of Latinos enrolling in college. She is also on the board of Kids In Need of Defense, a non-profit launched by Microsoft and Angelina Jolie to provide pro-bono attorneys to unaccompanied immigrant children.
In 1993, Nazario left the Wall Street Journal for a second time and joined the Los Angeles Times to write about social issues, including those dealing with Latinos and Latin America.
The story also garnered the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for her accompanying photographer, Don Bartletti. In 2006, Nazario published a book, Enrique"s Journey, which significantly expanded her newspaper series. lieutenant has been published in eight languages and has been adopted by 54 universities and scores of high schools nationwide as their "freshman read" or "all-campus read." In the fall of 2010, it was the second most-chosen book for freshman or all-campus reads at universities across the country.
Nazario is at work on her second book for Random House.
Married William Regensburger.