Advocate, and reported on high-profile stories such as the Gianni Versace and Matthew Shepard murders. While writing for the Chicago Tribune in 2001, Obejas and her team were eventually awarded a Pulitzer Prize for their work on "Gateway to Gridlock," an article on the American air traffic system. In her writing Obejas was able to detail her experiences as a lesbian, Jewish, and Cuban immigrant in her fiction and short story collections throughout the nineties. With her novel Memory Mambo, Obejas explored the life of a conflicted Cuban American lesbian and won a Lambda Literary Award for her story. Presence in journalism In 2002 33% of journalists were women. Among Hispanic and Latino journalists (3.3% total), 46.2% were women. See also National Association of Hispanic Journalists Network of Hispanic Communicators References Hispanic and Latino American history History of women in the United States Hispanic and Latino American women's organizations Hispanic and Latino American