Date and Time
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT
Thursday, Sept. 16, at 7 p.m.
Location
Online: Join the Zoom webinar at seminolestate.edu/speaker-series.
Fees/Admission
Free and open to the public
Contact Information
Maureen Preuss
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Description
Born in the Philippines, at age 16, journalist and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas found out he was in the United States illegally. In 2011, the New York Times Magazine published a groundbreaking essay he wrote in which he revealed and chronicled his life in America as an undocumented immigrant. Author of Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, Jose Antonio Vargas will share his personal story during his presentation, with a Q&A session. Vargas is the founder of Define America, a non-profit media and culture change organization that uses the power of narrative to humanize conversations about immigrants. Passionate about the role of arts in society and promoting equity in education, he serves on the advisory board of TheDream.US, a scholarship fund for undocumented immigrant students.
