On Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race with Ilia Calderón (Emmy Award Winning Journalist and Univision Primetime Anchor)

Event time: 
Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 12:00am to 1:00am
Location: 
Kroon Hall (KRN), Burke Auditorium See map
195 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism presents: Ilia Calderón (Emmy Award Winning Journalist and Univision Primetime Anchor) in Conversation with Professor Claudia Flores of Yale Law School: On Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race.
Please join us at noon on Tuesday, April 12th in Burke Auditorium in Kroon Hall, Yale University, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven.
Ilia Calderón is an Emmy Award–winning journalist, the co-anchor of Univision’s flagship evening newscast Noticiero Univision, and cohost of Univision’s primetime news magazine Aquí y Ahora. She is the first Afro-Latina to anchor a national weekday evening newscast for a major Hispanic broadcast network in the United States, having previously co-anchored three other news desks for Univision and two for Telemundo. She is the author of My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race (2020).
This event is co-sponsored by Black. et al., DocComm, Latinx Law Students Association; School of the Environment, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; School of Medicine, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; The Creative Forum; Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies; Latina Women at Yale; and Forestry Club. Find more information here: https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/blacketal/rsvp_boot?id=2053314

Admission: 
Free