Laura Wides-Munoz

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<p>Laura Wides-Muñoz ​is the author of <em>The Making of a Dream: How a Group of Young Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change What it Means to be American,</em> based on more than a decade of reporting on immigration, much of it done while a staff writer for <em>The Associated Press.</em><br/><br/>Previously, she served as Vice President for Special Projects & Editorial Strategy at Univision’s English-language Fusion Network, and as a senior story editor for the network's TV and digital investigative teams.<br/><br/>Laura has reported from Cuba and throughout Central America and has written for <em>The</em> <em>Miami Herald, The Washington Post, and </em>the <em>Los Angeles Times, </em>among other outlets. She has won the Associated Press Managing Editors Award and multiple Society of Professional Journalists awards.<br/><br/>​<em>The Making of a Dream</em><em> </em>is her first published book. She conceived of the project during a 2013 Harvard University Nieman Foundation for Journalism fellowship. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her family.</p>