Covering La Linea

Melissa del Bosque will speak at California State University, Northridge about the consequences of economic, political and institutional violence in the US-Mexico border region on March 7. Del Bosque has covered the US-Mexico border since 1998 and has been an investigative reporter with The Texas Observer magazine based in Austin, Texas, since 2008. Her work has been published in national and international media outlets, including TIME magazine, The Guardian, and the Mexico City-based Nexos magazine. Del Bosque’s work has also been featured in television and radio on Democracy Now!, PBS, Al Jazeera, the BBC and National Public Radio. The event is sponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies Distinguished Visiting Speakers Program, the Department of Journalism, the Institute for Arts and Media, the Department of Chicana/o Studies and El Nuevo Sol.