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 Photo by Luis J. JimenezS. Lynne Walker has served as Vice President of the Institute of the Americas since April 2008. Before joining the Institute, she was the Mexico City Bureau Chief for Copley News Service for 15 years, covering major political and economic news events including the historic election of Vicente Fox and Pope John Paul’s visits to Mexico.Walker, a native of Atlanta, Ga., has received numerous honors for her in-depth reporting on immigration. In 1989, she received a Gerald Loeb Award for a five-part series, "The Invisible Work Force," on Mexico's Mixtec Indians who migrated to San Diego's farm fields. In 1997, she received a National Headliner Award for a 14-part serial narrative, "Journey to the Promised Land," which showed the human drama of illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States. In 2003, Walker expanded her coverage beyond Mexico's borders when she traveled to Beardstown, Ill., to tell the story of residents in all-white, Midwestern town whose lives were drastically changed when a pork slaughterhouse opened its doors and recruited Hispanic workers. The result of her reporting was a four-part series, entitled "Beardstown: Reflection of a Changing America," which offered a portrait of a 7,000-person town that had been forever changed by a 3,229 percent increase in its Hispanic population in a single decade. Walker’s work earned the highest recognition in American journalism. She received the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism for her outstanding coverage of Latin America. And in 2004, Walker was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. |
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pril is Western Hemisphere month for U.S. President Barack Obama, and the capstone event is the Sixth Summit of the Americas, a regular meeting of the 34 democratically elected presidents and prime ministers of the hemisphere
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