Airs: Sunday 6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Host: Maria Hinojosa Produced by: KUT Radio/Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin Official Website:www.LatinoUSA.org Listener Inquiries: 800-535-5533 E-mail:http://www.npr.org/contact
Maria Hinojosa is the popular host of Latino USA. She is also urban affairs correspondent for CNN and a former NPR News reporter. In addition to being a venerable broadcaster, Hinojosa is the author of Raising Raul (Viking Press, 1999), a frequent lecturer on college campuses, a devotee of the arts, and a first generation American Latina. A widely acclaimed journalist, she has received the Robert F. Kennedy Award, an Associated Press award and the National Council of La Raza's 1999 Ruben Salazar Award, to name a few.