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An award-winning multimedia journalist and founder of Define America - a new campaign that seeks to elevate the conversation around
immigration - will speak at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at Pugh Hall at 6 p.m. Jan. 30.
In June 2011, Jose Antonio Vargas triggered a national debate when he revealed himself as an undocumented immigrant in a lengthy New York
Times Magazine piece. Most recently, Vargas has been at the forefront of campaigning for the Dream Act, a nearly decade-old immigration bill that would provide a path to legal permanent residency for young people who have been educated in this country.
Vargas has been a journalist for more than a decade, writing for some of the most prestigious news organizations in the country. He has been a
senior contributing editor at the Huffington Post, where he launched the technology and college sections. Prior to that, Vargas covered tech and video game culture, HIV/AIDS, and the 2008 presidential campaign for the Washington Post. He was part of the team
that won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech.
In 2007, the daily journal Politico named him one of the 50 Politicos to Watch. On HuffPost, he created the blog Technology as Anthropology,
which focuses on technology's impact on people's behavior. Vargas has taught a class on Storytelling 2.0 at Georgetown University and served on the advisory board for the Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism, housed at American University.
Should children of undocumented immigrants be able to attend public school?
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