Events
2020 Perspectives: Writers on Migration Premiere
THANK YOU to everyone who made our October 8, 2020 Perspectives series premiere a success!
Special thanks to Jia Lynn Yang and Ibrahim Hirsi.
On October 8, 2020, ILCM launched a new event series called “Perspectives: Writers on Migration.” The series will feature various authors whose work focuses on immigration. For our inaugural event, we were proud to host Deputy National Editor at the New York Times, Jia Lynn Yang, speaking about her new book, “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965.” We were also excited that she was joined in conversation by local writer and journalist Ibrahim Hirsi.
Jia Lynn Yang is the Deputy National Editor of the New York Times and author of the recently published One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965. She was previously deputy national security editor at The Washington Post, where she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Trump and Russia. Before becoming an editor, Jia Lynn wrote about business and economics at the Post and at Fortune magazine for over a decade.
Ibrahim Hirsi is a reporter at Sahan Journal, where he covers immigrant communities and the politics and policies that affect them. He was previously a staff writer for MinnPost and MPR News. Ibrahim got his start in journalism at the Minnesota Daily, the University of Minnesota’s student newspaper. He’s currently a Ph.D. student in immigration history at the University of Minnesota.
Thank you to our event sponsors!
