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DESCRIPTION:Emmy Award-winning CBS correspondent Mireya Villarreal presents
  the 2021 Hosokawa Journalism Lecture. She joins the Whitman community for
  a virtual conversation about her experience covering breaking news storie
 s such as the COVID-19 pandemic\, immigration and family separation at the
  border\, natural disasters and the death of U.S. Army soldier Vanessa Gui
 llén. She will also share insights on mental health and self-care.\n\nVil
 larreal joined CBS News in July 2015\, and has covered a wide range of bre
 aking news stories including COVID-19\, family separation at the U.S.-Mexi
 co border\, the school shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon and 
 the Environmental Protection Agency’s contaminated water leak into the C
 olorado River in Durango\, Colo. She has also reported on the devastating 
 wildfires in California that burned 36\,000 acres in June 2016\, as well a
 s the methane gas leak in Porter Ranch\, Calif.\, that caused thousands to
  evacuate their homes.\n\nIn 2019\, Villarreal moved back to Texas\, her h
 ome state\, to help cover the Southern Region for CBS News\; a total of 16
  states from Florida to New Mexico.\n\nIn the last two years she’s cover
 ed a wide range of stories including immigration issues and sexual assault
  in the military.  She was the first national correspondent to shed light 
 on the disappearance of Vanessa Guillen and the subsequent changes made by
  the Army.  Her continued coverage of the recent migrant surge along the s
 outhern border has also given people all over the world a unique understan
 ding of why these people are coming to the US\, who is bearing the brunt o
 f the surge\, and how the administration is responding.\n\nA veteran inves
 tigative reporter\, she is the recipient of two Texas Associated Press Awa
 rds for stories on immigration and child safety.\n\nPreviously\, Villarrea
 l reported for KTVT-TV\, the CBS owned and operated station in Dallas. Ear
 lier\, she worked at WOAI in San Antonio from 2008 to 2012 and KRGV-TV in 
 Rio Grande Valley\, Texas from 2005 to 2008. She began her journalism care
 er at KGNS-TV in Laredo\, Texas\, as a weekend sports anchor and reporter.
 \n\nVillarreal is a native of the Texas Rio Grande Valley and graduated fr
 om the University of Texas Pan-American in 2001.
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SUMMARY:BREAKING: Covering the Country’s Biggest Stories in the Midst of 
 a Pandemic - In-Depth Perspective from a Field Correspondent 
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.whitman.edu/event/2021_hosokawa_journalism_l
 ecture
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