![Hinojosa Maria Aif2021](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/27a8ffdc-3321-4a07-92b9-9f2e7f284745/Hinojosa_Maria_AIF2021.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=2606%2C845%2C1737%2C1736&w=290)
María Hinojosa
Founder and President, Futuro Media
María Hinojosa is the founder and president of Futuro Media, where she co-hosts the political podcast “In The Thick” and is anchor and executive producer of “Latino USA.” She is also a contributor to “CBS Sunday Morning” and a frequent guest on MSNBC. Previously, Hinojosa reported for PBS, CBS, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchored “Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One” on PBS. She was the first Latina to anchor a PBS “Frontline” report. Hinojosa is the author of Once I Was You and Raising Raul. Her recognition includes four Emmys, the John Chancellor Award, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Ruben Salazar Lifetime Achievement Award.
Previously
![The Classroom of the Future: Better Education for All](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/261119d9-4729-4041-9192-6f739a1a198b/ClassroomPic.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C42%2C1000%2C563&w=400)
How can we use this moment of post-pandemic reawakening and reinvention to ensure that every young person in America is ready for the future? Join this session to participate...
![Aspen Ideas: Health Closing Session](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null25bb6b19-352d-44c7-9d47-c05bf458b7d0/48121085872_00774bad63_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C83%2C1600%2C901&w=400)
A conversation with Senator Bill Cassidy (Interviewer: Elizabeth Cohen) A conversation with David Brooks and Marc Freedman (Moderator: Jonathan Capehart) A conversatio...
![The Influence of Housing on Health](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null2f4bbb2f-6947-4cb0-ac27-722d85ea4f49/48108990701_776a285d22_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C72%2C1600%2C899&w=400)
Improved housing offers a tremendous opportunity to boost health. Some of the links between substandard housing and poor health are obvious, if alarming – pests and mold promo...
![Our Children Are in Trouble](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null58d5cc0b-3e5a-485d-909d-ca5164a1b854/48109186371_b4d84399ff_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C1920%2C1081&w=400)
From academic pressures to classroom shootings, economic uncertainty to climate change, young people are facing more stressors than ever, and it’s surfacing in some terrible w...
![What Is It Like to Be Inside the American Immigration System Today?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/9a00dfa5-5cef-4522-9a78-aafe0d6a24d8/42377647294_3984ed270e_o1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C688%2C8256%2C4644&w=400)
While Congress looks less and less likely to take on any meaningful move on comprehensive immigration reform, hundreds of thousands of people live in limbo every day. Many of...
![Afternoon of Conversation](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/87b70fad-0d96-4044-af48-c1587494a31a/29200985798_8a4509f12e_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C229%2C6720%2C3782&w=400)
For our annual signature event in the Benedict Music Tent, the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival hosts former secretary of state John Kerry in a candid conversation about geopolitics...
![Creative Tensions: Where Do You Stand on the Words We Use Today?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/2959c0e8-1ecd-42d7-b1ff-bf426f84fd85/43001556532_718d2a78f5_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C160%2C2070%2C1165&w=400)
Words hurt, words heal — or do they? As we’re exposed to the broad range of messages through media and social networks, and as we hear more people saying controversial (and hi...
!['In the Thick' Podcast: Who Gets to be Mad? Race, Gender and the Politics of American Anger](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/352003e2-67c9-4e32-968c-de7ef237e218/41241445870_baff88016f_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C49%2C3500%2C1968&w=400)
Join a live podcast with Futuro Media’s ‘In The Thick.’ Co-hosts Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela meet up at Aspen Ideas with Dr. Brittney Cooper (aka Professor Crunk),...
![How Race and Place Influence Health](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/ec17cb75-1300-48e7-87a4-976b35d46314/42087050205_f47d801a30_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C62%2C3000%2C1684&w=400)
Racial segregation and uneven access to opportunity are powerful obstacles to upward mobility in the US, contributing significantly to health inequities, as well as to gaps in...
![Trump Administration Report Card](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullcef77e14-01d4-460a-88e8-758d3d9a3a62/34790005644_8533cb2f65_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C20%2C1600%2C901&w=400)
What has been predictable about the Trump Administration so far? What has been surprising? What have been the greatest successes — according to both pundits and the public — a...
![A Conversation on Being Latino in America Today](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/79d1eec8-2fed-4aef-900d-ef4da4a9fd3c/35590879756_be77f47702_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C126%2C6016%2C3389&w=400)
As Latino Americans emerge as the majority minority and the new mainstream, representing 18 percent of the US population and approaching one-third by 2060, questions are emerg...
![Bridges, Walls, and Faith: The Tough Questions Facing Latinos in Trump’s America](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null4563c227-ad66-40af-9dd8-e8a005ac14ce/35500999041_c855ff7015_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C164%2C1600%2C899&w=400)
Latino evangelicals — a fast-growing population that is nearing 20 percent of American Latinos, and rising — exemplify the difficult positions many Christians find themselves...
![The General Election: What Now?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null3f097dbe-2eef-4a4e-ac23-61d66b58d37e/27982253005_e013ff1aab_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C69%2C1600%2C901&w=400)
The bitter primaries, with their surprises and scandals behind us, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump. So, what’s next? What issues of substance will take the spotlight as the...
![The Story of Citizen Power: Using Narrative to Create Change](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/6674bb7d-0b22-4e43-b62f-0da754d9bbec/27888113621_dd01cd8213_o1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C458%2C4928%2C2777&w=400)
Our nation’s founders envisioned a republic in which the people would be the ultimate source of power. However, a pervasive cultural narrative—across the right and the left—te...
![The Big Picture: Crime and Incarceration in America](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullf34e5ba7-23bb-4b33-a5dc-8c89ae6967d1/27859110672_b055279059_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C169%2C1600%2C899&w=400)
Crime is down in the United States, but incarceration has mushroomed. Some might argue this is proof of successful crime fighting. But more and more leaders and observers thin...
![Rebuilding Trust Between Police and Communities of Color](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullba8236b8-cc42-4be5-b670-38fb6f0c2875/27846595922_0f8ee92326_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C1600%2C899&w=400)
As high-profile episodes of violence have highlighted the issue of use of excessive force and mistreatment of people of color by police, what is the way forward for law enforc...