Mirta Ojito, a newspaper reporter since 1987, has worked for the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and, from 1996 to 2002, the New York Times, where she covered immigration, among other beats, for the Metro desk. She has received numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2001 for a series of articles in the Times about race in America. She is the author of "Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus" and "Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town" (Beacon Press, Oct. 2013). She teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York City, where she lives with her three children.Photographer Copyright Credit Name: Clare Holt, 2013