Dear NALEO and NALEO Educational Fund Board Members:

I am delighted to report that Univision Communications has been awarded the prestigious Peabody Award for the ya es hora campaign!  The University of Georgia's Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication has recognized the campaign as one of 35 awardees in the 67th presentation of the awards.  According to the press release:

The latest Peabody recipients reflect great diversity in content, genre and source of origination. Recipients included The Colbert Report, Comedy Central`s cable-news satire, and A Journey Across Afghanistan: Opium and Roses, a documentary from Bulgaria`s Balkan News Corporation (bTV). Whole Lotta Shakin, the Texas Heritage Music Foundation`s rollicking public-radio series chronicling the 1950s heyday of rockabilly music received the award, as did Univision`s Ya Es Hora, a public-service campaign that taught legal aliens how to apply for American citizenship.

The Peabody Board is a 16-member group, comprised of television critics, broadcast and cable industry executives and experts in culture and the arts, that judges the entries. Selection is made by the board following review by special screening committees of University of Georgia faculty, students and staff. The Peabody Awards, the oldest honor in electronic media, do not recognize categories nor are there a set number of awards given each year. Today the Peabody recognizes distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. All entries become a permanent part of the Peabody Archive in the University of Georgia Libraries. The collection is one of the nation`s oldest, largest and most respected moving-image archives. For more information about the Peabody Archive or the Peabody Awards, visit www.peabody.uga.edu <http://www.peabody.uga.edu/> .

Congratulations to Univision Communications, our NALEO Educational Fund Board member Ivelisse Estrada, the ya es hora partners, and especially to the talented NALEO Educational Fund staff who led this effort and worked so hard in 2007!

We will have much to celebrate in Miami!

 
Arturo Vargas
Executive Director