of La Raza's Rubén Salazar Communications Award (named for Mexican American journalist Rubén Salazar), and an Associated Press award. In 2010, she received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from DePaul University in Chicago. In 2012, she was named DePaul University's new Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Chair. She has won four Emmy Awards, including one in 2002 for coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and another in 2008 for her work on Taxing the Poor, documenting the plight of the lower class in Alabama. In 2009, she was honored with an American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Gracie Award for Individual Achievement. Hinojosa has been named among the top 25 Latinos in Contemporary American Culture by the Huffington Post. Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One was recognized with New England Emmy Awards for Outstanding Interview Program in 2008 and 2011, and a New England Emmy Award for Outstanding Host/Moderator in 2012. In 2011, One-on-One received an Imagen Award for its contribution to the positive image of Latinos in the US. In 2007, she was inducted into the "She Made It" Hall of Fame at the Paley Center for Media/Museum of Television and Radio. In 2022, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced that Futuro Media and Hinojosa won a Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting for its seven-part podcast series, Suave. Books Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America () Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son () Crews: Gang Members Talk with Maria Hinojosa () The Latino List/La Lista De Latinos () References External links The Futuro Media Group "America by the Numbers: Clarkston Georgia" homepage NPR bio Powerful Latinas profile 2007 Feature Interview with Maria Hinojosa on The Alcove with Mark Molaro "Telling the Truth — The Best in Broadcast Journalism", PBS, Maria Hinojosa, host. 1961 births Living people American radio journalists American radio reporters and correspondents American television reporters and correspondents American memoirists NPR personalities American writers of Mexican descent Mexican expatriates in the United States Mexican emigrants to the United States Barnard College alumni People from Mexico City Hispanic and Latino American women journalists University of Chicago Laboratory Schools alumni American women memoirists PBS people American women chief executives American chief executives in the media industry American women television journalists American women radio journalists 21st-century American women Pulitzer Prize winners