Maria Hinojosa is an anchor for PBS Need to Know and NPR's Latino USA. She is a syndicated columnist with King Features and a contributor to Frontline on PBS. Hinojosa, who formerly covered urban affairs for CNN, also serves as anchor and managing editor of National Public Radio's Latino USA, a weekly national program reporting on news and culture in the Latino community.

Hinojosa has garnered many awards and honors, most recently the prestigious Leadership Award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. In 2007 she was recognized by the Paley Center (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) in a program that honors womens' contributions to media.

Maria won the Ruben Salazar Award from the National Council of La Raza, an award that recognizes a journalist's outstanding body of work. She has also been named one of the "25 Most Influential Working Mothers in America" by Working Mother magazine, and three times over the past decade Hispanic Business magazine named her one of the 100 most influential Latinos in the United States.

In 2001, Maria received an Emmy in recognition for her work covering the September 11th attacks in NYC. She has also been given a lifetime achievement award in media by the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors and won a Robert F. Kennedy award in radio for her reporting on the disadvantaged.

Before joining CNN in 1997, Hinojosa spent six years at National Public Radio as a New York-based correspondent. During this time, she also hosted Visiones, a public-affairs talk show on WNBC-TV in New York. Her personal experiences as a Mexican-American career woman, wife and mother living in New York were published in 1999 in her critically acclaimed memoir, Raising Raul: An Adventure Raising Myself and My Son . In 1995 she published Crews: Gang Members Talk with Maria Hinojosa, a book based on her award-winning NPR report.

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