Eileen Truax
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Eileen Truax is a US-based journalist who covers migration and politics. She currently lives in Ann Arbor, MI, as part of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships for Journalists program in the University of Michigan. She’s content director of the International Migration Journalism Symposium celebrated yearly in Merida, Spain. Eileen was born in Mexico City, where she was a political reporter and a Congress correspondent. In 2004 she moved to Los Angeles. For seven years she worked for "La Opinión", the largest Spanish-Language newspaper in the US. She has extensively reported from the US Southern border, and has also covered stories from Mexico, Guatemala and and Spain. Her work has been published in several media outlets in the US, Latin America and Spain, such as The Washington Post, Vice, Americas Quarterly, Al Día News, Proceso, Gatopardo, 5W, and Altaïr magazines, and the Spanish editions of The New York Times and Newsweek, among others. Since 2010, Eileen has followed closely the Dreamers movement and the access of ethnic minorities to higher education. She’s the author of "Dreamers: an Immigrant Generation's Fight for their American Dream" (Oceano, 2013; Beacon Press 2015), a book that sheds light on the struggle of undocumented students in the US. Dreamers was selected by the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) to be part of their 2016 Annual Collection for Public and School Libraries. Eileen is the author of "We Built the Wall. How the US keeps out asylum seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond" (Verso, 2018; HarperCollins, 2019) and "How does it feel to be unwanted. Stories of resistance and resilience from Mexican living in the United States" (Planeta, 2017; Beacon Press 2018). She was the English-Spanish translator of the Latino Immigrant Civic Engagement report series for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and her work has been published in six other books. Eileen holds a B.A. in Social Communication and an M.A. in Communication and Politics. She has been awarded reporting grants from the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); the International Women Media Foundation (IWMF), and the Institute for Justice and Journalism (IJJ), and has received training fellowships from the Knight Digital Media Center and the Iberoamerican Foundation for New Journalism (FNPI) in Colombia. She has also been a board member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Eileen has twice received the José Martí Publishing Award from the National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP 2010, 2015); the Media Woman of the Year Award from the California State Legislature (2010); an Honorary Mention from the Inter-American Press Society (2016), and the Keith P. Sanders Outstanding Service Award from the California State University Northridge (CSUN, 2018). In 2018 she was selected as one of the 15 Most Influential Latina Journalists by CCNMA Latino Journalists of California, and in 2019 she received the Desalambre Human Rights Journalism Award in Spain, for her work about indigenous women defending environmental rights in Latin America. Her current research topics are immigrant youth in Spain, and language justice for indigenous immigrant communities in the United States.
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    • An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream
    • By: Eileen Truax
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    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2017
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