There’s still time to book your events for Latine / Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs annually from September 15th through October 15th! Invite an amazing storyteller to celebrate with your organization, university, or library.
These engaging and motivational speakers place heritage, community, and identity at the center of their incredible stories, inspiring audiences of all ages and offering critical insights into the Latine and Hispanic experience.
Book your last-minute Latine / Hispanic Heritage Month Speakers!
Javier Zamora
Memoirist, poet, and author of Solito
Speaking Topics & Expertise:
- Explores how identity influences our ideas of home and brings humanity and warmth to the figure of the “immigrant”
- Speaks on how writing can help heal and process trauma
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree and The Man Who Could Move Clouds
Speaking Topics & Expertise:
- Speaks about Latinx identity, cultural and physical borders, stories in migration, and what is lost in translation
- Explores the politics of interpersonal power, the violence perpetrated against the women in her family across three generations, and the marks these experiences leave behind
Hernan Diaz
Associate Director of the Hispanic Institute for Latin and Author of finalist for Pulitzer Prize In the Distance and Booker Prize-nominated Trust
Speaking Topics & Expertise:
- Discusses the place of foreigners in the American canon
- Reflects on the nature of literature and how it helps shape reality
Matt de la Peña
New York Times-bestselling author of books for children and young adults
Speaking Topics & Expertise:
- Offers insight into what it means to have a mixed identity in America
- Explores the socio-economic issues many immigrants face
Cristina Henríquez
Critically acclaimed author of The Book of Unknown Americans
Speaking Topics & Expertise:
- Speaks about identity and addresses common narratives about immigration
- Shares the varied human stories behind the ongoing debate about immigration through the eyes of characters from all over Latin America