Héctor delivered the 2009 Commencement Amendment at the Los Angeles Leadership Academy, and the address at the 2008 Humanities Graduation at Cal State Northridge. Read his CSUN speech here.
Click here to read a recent speech by Héctor on the immigration debate and what it means for the Latino community. And click here to read his June 2009 column on black-Latino unity in Los Angeles
He's spoken in Minnesota, Ohio, North Carolina, Texas and many other places, and is available to speak to your school, college or community group.
<<<Hector's novel The Tattooed Soldier is published in paperback by Penguin Books and was a finalist for the PEN USA West Award for Fiction.
His most recent book is the non-fiction Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States, published by Riverhead Books. >>>
These days, Héctor is writing another book and working for his hometown paper, the Los Angeles Times.
For a decade, Héctor was a National and Foreign correspondent for the L.A. times. Click here to read Hector's reporting from Mexico, Nicaragua, Argentina, Iraq, Los Angeles and many other places around the world
You can write to Hector here.
If you've read one of his books, or his journalism, he'd love to hear from you.
