Interview with Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas

Interview with Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas

Host: David Inge

Since the beginning of his career in journalism eight years ago, Jose Vargas has written hundreds of stories — including covering the 2008 presidential campaign for The Washington Post; profiling Al Gore for Rolling Stone and 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.

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.