January 21 – Jonathan Blitzer with Patt Morrison
Getting Beyond the Border: How Immigration Became a Political Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer
Jonathan Blitzer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, covers immigration, politics, and foreign affairs. He won a 2017 National Award for Education Reporting for “American Studies,” a story about an underground school of undocumented immigrants. He is also the recipient of a 2019 Edward R. Murrow Award; the 2018 Immigration Journalism Prize, from the French-American Foundation; and a Media Leadership Award, from the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He was a 2021 Emerson Fellow at New America. His first book, “Everyone Who is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis,” was named one of the ten best books of 2024 by the New York Times. It also received the 2025 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism and the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Bob Greenstein
Patt Morrison has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes as a longtime Los Angeles Times writer and columnist. As a public television and radio broadcaster, she has won six Emmys and a dozen Golden Mike awards. Her first book, “Rio LA,” about the Los Angeles River, was a bestseller. Her most recent book is, “Don’t Stop the Presses! Truth, Justice, and the American Newspaper.”