Lauren Markham
Special Guest Educator and Author Event in the fall of 2020!
SPONSORED BY
California Reading and Literature Project
Graduate School of Education Center for Innovative Learning
Community Leaders Association and President's Diversity Council
at California Lutheran University
The Contemporary Central American and Child Migrant Experience
This event marks the culmination of our 20th Anniversary Celebration. CRLP has been serving educators and the community at California Lutheran University for 20 years!
Drawing on her reporting and her book The Far Away Brothers, Lauren Markham discusses the contemporary Central American and child migrant experience. This lecture also touches on the effects of recent immigration policy and the future of undocumented immigrants in the United States and child migrants and refugees worldwide.
About Lauren Markham
Lauren Markham is a writer based in Berkeley, California. Her work has appeared in VQR, VICE, Orion, Pacific Standard, Guernica, The New Yorker.com, on This American Life, and elsewhere. Lauren earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been awarded Fellowships from the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism, the 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship, the Mesa Refuge, and the Rotary Foundation. For the past decade, she has worked in the fields of refugee resettlement and immigrant education.
As an educator and reporter in Oakland, California, Lauren Markham encounters hundreds of students caught up inside the US immigration system every year. In response to hearing their stories and seeing firsthand the plight of unaccompanied minors in the United States, she decided to write The Far Away Brothers. This book is directly inspired by the personal accounts of two of her students, twin brothers who fled from El Salvador in order to escape the spreading gang violence in their community. In addition to telling their story, Markham also provides crucial context for readers by including information on the many barriers faced by immigrants seeking a new life in the United States. She examines the dangers of crossing the United States–Mexico border, the legacy of violence in El Salvador, the state of detention centers for juvenile immigrants as well as adults, and the complex factors that convince people to risk their livelihoods and their lives in order to enter the United States.
Learn more about Lauren: https://www.laurenmarkham.info/
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