Lalo Alcaraz is an award-winning visual/media artist and television/film writer, and a New York Times best-selling author. Alcaraz has been chronicling the ascendancy of Latinos in the U.S. for over a quarter-century with his syndicated daily comic strip La Cucaracha. In 2022, Alcaraz won the prestigious Herb Block Prize. He has worked in popular films and TV shows such as Pixar's Coco, Fox's Bordertown, and Nickelodeon's The Casagrandes

Co-sponosor: Latin American and Latinx Studies