Hosted by the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty, Arts, Humanities and Diversity.

Introduced by NYU Vice Provost Uli Baer and KJCC Director Ana Dopico.

Juan González, the longtime Daily News columnist and Democracy Now co-host, will led a dialogue with these acclaimed writers and performers of stage and screen about their lives, their work, the arts, and the cultural politics that have shaped their careers and communities.

Sonia Manzano is a fifteen time Emmy Award winning TV writer, actress, novelist, and memoirist**,** the originator and long time embodiment of the groundbreaking character “Maria” on Sesame Street, and author of Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a Grammy and Tony Award winning actor, playwright, composer, 2015 MacArthur Fellow, and the creator and protagonist of the Broadway hits Hamilton and In the Heights.

Sponsored by NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and made possible with the generous support of NYU’s Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty, Arts, Humanities and Diversity.