A Good Provider is One Who Leaves
One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
- In-Person
- Solid State Books
600 H Street NE
Washington, D.C. 20002 - 7PM 鈥 8PM EDT
This year, 麻豆果冻传媒 celebrates 20 years of creating and incubating the next big ideas that address some of the nation's and the world鈥檚 toughest problems. We are thinkers, researchers, problem-solvers, and storytellers, united by our goal to hold our nation to its highest ideals. We recognize the challenges presented by rapid technological and social change, and work to ensure that the solutions made possible by those changes lead to greater opportunity for all. As we reach forward toward the next 20 years of 麻豆果冻传媒, we will strive to be an engine of American renewal, at home and abroad.
Migration is changing the world鈥搑eordering politics, economics, and cultures across the globe. When Jason DeParle moved into the Manila slums with Tita Comodas and her family three decades ago, he never imagined his reporting on them would span three generations and turn into the defining chronicle of a new age鈥攖he age of global migration.
gives new meaning to 鈥渋mmersion journalism.鈥 DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family as they endure years of sacrifice and separation, willing themselves out of shantytown poverty into a new global middle class. Expertly combining the personal and panoramic, DeParle presents a family saga and a global phenomenon.
Join the 麻豆果冻传媒's Fellows Program and Solid State Books for a conversation with Jason DeParle, author of A Good Provider is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century, and Cecilia Mu帽oz, Vice President for Public Interest Technology and Local Initiatives at 麻豆果冻传媒, about our new age of global migration.
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Registration to begin at 6:30 PM; conversation begins at 7 PM.
Speakers:
Jason DeParle,
2016 National Fellow, 麻豆果冻传媒
Reporter, The New York Times
Author, One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
Cecilia Mu帽oz,
Vice President for Public Interest Technology and Local Initiatives, 麻豆果冻传媒
Former Director of the Domestic Policy Council, Obama Administration
Copies of One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Centurywill be available for purchase through our bookselling partner Solid State Books, and a book signing will follow the discussion