This book event, to be held in conjunction with the 2020 MAFO National Farmworker Conference on April 26 in McAllen, Texas, was cancelled because the Conference itself could not take place due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Category: events
Philanthropy New York
On February 18, the book was featured in a discussion sponsored by Philanthropy New York and the Carnegie Corporation of New York that also included Jason DeParle, author of A Good Provider is One Who Leaves; for a recording of the event click here.
C-SPAN’s Book TV
An event at the National Press Club on October 8—a discussion of the book with Greg Sargent of the “The Plum Line” blog in the Washington Post—was aired on C-SPAN’s “Book TV” on Sunday, November 2. You can view it by clicking here.
Denver, Colorado
The book was featured at an event cosponsored by the Colorado Latino Leadership, Advocacy and Research Organization (CLLARO) and the Latino Community Foundation of Colorado in Denver on October 23.
National Immigrant Integration Conference
At the National Immigrant Integration Conference in Detroit, Michigan, the book was discussed as part of a special session on October 21 before a packed room of participants. Accompanying Charles on the Panel were Petra Falcon, from Promise Arizona, who spoke of her experience in Arizona with the implementation of the 1986 law, and Anna Marie Gallagher, who is now with Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), an organization affiliated with the Catholic Church, which was spawned from the IRCA implementation work. She spoke of her experience as a young attorney whose Central American clients suddenly had a path to legal status thanks to IRCA’s legalization program. The program was moderated by Nancy Flores with the National Partnership of New Americans, organizers of the conference. Walmart provided books to attendees of the special session.
At the same conference, Wells Fargo hosted a reception and book signing for the author.
National Press Club Event, October 8
The book was featured at a discussion between the author and Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent at the National Press Club on October 8 at an event sponsored by Mandel Vilar Press, Americas For Conservation + the Arts (AFCA), the Latino Farmers and Ranchers Association, and Mickey Ibarra & Associates.
UnidosUS October 3
On October 3 author discussed the book via an interview by former Obama Domestic Policy Advisor and NCLR/UnidosUS Senior Vice President Cecilia Munoz at UnidosUS.
UnidosUS Annual Conference
There was a “fireside chat”with the author and UnidosUS Deputy Vice President Clarissa Martinez De Castro on Sunday, August 4, 2019, at the UnidosUS Annual Conference in San Diego, California.
Below is a video recording of the event at UnidosUS.
Center for Migration Studies
The Center for Migration Studies (CMS) of New York hosted an event to discuss the book on Thursday, August 1, 2019, at the offices of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. The author appeared on a panel that included CMS Executive Director Don Kerwin, Brooklyn Bishop Nick DiMarzio, Sonia Lin of the New York Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, and Bob Juceam, Of Counsel at Fried, Frank.
Below there is a video recording of that event.
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
The book was discussed at a meeting of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, DC, on July 19, 2019, and below you can find a video recording of that event.
Immigration Reform: The Corpse that Will Not Die 