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Sonia Nazario Featured Author, Journalist, Humanitarian

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• What Part of Illegal Don't you Understand?

  In the New York Times, Sonia discusses the experiences she and her family had in running from danger for a century, and how it brought her to write about refugees and immigrants.

• What Part of Illegal Don't you Understand?

  In the New York Times, Sonia discusses the experiences she and her family had in running from danger for a century, and how it brought her to write about refugees and immigrants.

• Pay or Die

  MS-13 and 18th Street gangsters want to run Honduras. Cutting off American aid isn't going to stop them. Corruption allows the gangs to impose a reign of terror which fuels poverty.

• ‘Someone Is Always Trying to Kill You'

  The United States cannot erect a wall and expect women to resign themselves to being slaughtered. “Just because you are a woman, you feel hatred. Like someone is always trying to kill you.”

• Using Literature to Shatter Our Entrenched Views, Part I

  Children ride on top of freight trains—called La Bestia, The Beast—up the length of Mexico. Waiting for these innocent children are bandits, corrupt police officers, gangsters, rapists, and more. They’re beaten, robbed, raped, and sometimes killed. They lose legs, arms, and fingers riding La Bestia.

• Using Literature to Shatter Our Entrenched Views, Part II

  I’ve always focused on those not getting enough ink – women, children, the poor, Latinos. The journey of these children, of Enrique, had to be told.

• These Are Children, Not Bad Hombres

  Published February 25, 2017 in the New York Times

• How the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Got a Little Bit Safer

  Published August 11, 2016 in the New York Times

• Refugees at Our Door

  Published October 11, 2015 in the New York Times

• Children of the Drug Wars

  Published July 11, 2014 in the New York Times

• Heartache of an Immigrant Family

  Published October 15, 2013 in the New York Times

• Sonia Nazario's Chutzpah Gives voice to Latin America's Voiceless Migrants

  Article about Sonia in Tablet Magazine, 8/28/15