Santa Rosa Junior College Arts and Lectures with English Department's WOLM (Work of Literary Merit) Series presents:
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas A Discussion with ABC News Reporter Armondo Tonatiuh Torres-Garcia on November 17, 2020

"SRJC alumnus Armando Torres-García is a campaign embed reporter and field producer for ABC News. Armando was embedded in several presidential campaigns, including Sen. Kamala Harris, Entrepreneur Andrew Yang and former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg. As a field producer, Armando has also helped cover some of the biggest headlines of the past few years, including Hurricane Maria and the protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
Armando grew up in St. Helena and got his start in journalism at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he took journalism classes and worked at The Oak Leaf. He transferred in 2011 to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. Armando worked as a reporter for Univision Costa Central for two years before getting his master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School. 
He is passionate about telling compelling human-interest stories. One of his biggest projects to date is his “This is Home” project, in which 50 child refugees told their stories through photographs."