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Senior Correspondent for the acclaimed series NOW on PBS, the anchor and managing editor of NPR’s Latino USA, and the anchor of her own Emmy Award winning talk show One on One with Maria Hinojosa from WGBH/La Plaza. >> I’ll be talking with Maria about how she got where she is and what characteristics allowed her to achieve the success she’s obtained. Hinojosa has won top honors in American journalism including 2 Emmy’s, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Reporting on the Disadvantaged, and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club for best documentary for her groundbreaking piece Child Brides: Stolen Lives.

An award winning bilingual producer and director with USA and Latin American credits. Her advertising agency experience includes Saatchi & Saatchi/Conill Advertising, Foote, Cone, & Belding International, J.Walter Thompson/Hispania, Young & Rubicam/Bravo Group, The Vidal Partnership, The Chisholm Mingo Group, Spike/DDB Needham, and GlobalHue NY.

Marcela Landres, the daughter of immigrants from Ecuador, is one of the few Latina editors in book publishing, and works as an Editorial Consultant. She grew up and still lives in New York City.