Maria Hinojosa

Maria Hinojosa (born July 2, 1961) is an award winning journalist. She is the founder of The Futuro Media Group and the executive producer of America By the Numbers with Maria Hinojosa: Clarkston Georgia which premieres on PBS as a Need to Know Election 2012 special on September 21, 2012. In 2011, she became the first Latina to anchor a Frontline report on PBS (Lost in Detention, a documentary exploring the issue of deportation and immigrant detention and abuse). Since 1995, she has been named three times as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine for her work as a reporter for CBS, NPR, and CNN.