Growing up in the 915, New York Times national reporter Jazmine Ulloa was taught to keep herself out of the story. But on March 9, standing before a crowd of former teachers, childhood friends and the very families she spent a decade interviewing, the Burges High School alumna admitted that this story required her to break the rules.
The event, held at the Philanthropy Theater in partnership with El Paso Matters, served as a homecoming for Ulloa, whose book, “El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory,” was published on March 3.
The discussion served as a deep dive into the story behind the book and why its history is important not only to Ulloa, but to the entire El Paso community…