Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz is illustrated by 17 Latinx artists and shares the stories and testimonies of 61 children—from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Mexico, ranging in age from five to seventeen—detained at the southern border. Join children’s rights scholar and advocate Warren Binford and Michael Garcia Bochenek as they discuss both the making of this moving and richly illustrated book and Project Amplify, an organization that supports children in migration.

• Moderator: Rose Cahalan, Texas Monthly associate editor
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Warren Binford, Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz: The Testimonies of Children Detained at the Southern Border of the United States