Luis Urrea: Diversity & Stories

Pat Harris and McDonald's Global Inclusion and Intercultural Management team in partnership with the CHF, invite you to a day without preconceptions. As part of the CHF Diversity Day, experts in non-traditional topics including society and humanity speak to the topic of diversity. As part of producing a widely accessible facilitation guide for diversity enthusiasts these innovative speakers present and discuss their experiences with understanding diversity.

In this video Luis Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter and Queen of America, speaks about the power of sharing our stories with each other.

Luis Alberto Urrea, 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, was born in Tijuana, Mexico to a Mexican father and an American mother. The critically acclaimed and best-selling author of 13 books, Urrea has won numerous awards including the Lannan Literary Award and Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize (for The Devil's Highway) and the Kiriyama Prize in Fiction for The Hummingbird's Daughter. He is a professor of creative writing at UIC.