The Penguin Speakers Bureau

Mirta Ojito is an assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she teaches a seminar on immigration reporting as well as a reporting and writing class. A newspaper reporter since 1987, Ms. Ojito worked for The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald for nine years, and, from 1996 to 2002, for The New York Times, where she covered immigration, among other beats, for the metro desk. In 1999, she received the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ writing award for best foreign reporting for a series of articles about life in Cuba, and in 2001 shared a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a New York Times series of articles about race in America. Her work has been included in several anthologies, including TO MEND THE WORLD: Women Reflect on 9/11, WRITTEN INTO HISTORY: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times, by Heart/De Memoria, and HOW RACE IS LIVED IN AMERICA.

Ms. Ojito is a graduate of the mid-career master’s degree program at Columbia University. Her first book, FINDING MAÑANA: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus (The Penguin Press), was released in 2005. A translation, titled EL MAÑANA, was published a year later. She continues to write for The New York Times and other publications from New York City.

Visit the Columbia University Journalism School website at www.journalism.columbia.edu.