Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented immigrant who has worked in the United States as a journalist for more than a decade, will give a lecture titled “Define American: My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.

Vargas has worked for the Washington Post and the Huffington Post since graduating from San Francisco State in 2004. His coverage with Post reporters covering the Virginia Tech shootings won a Pulitzer Prize. 

He wrote an essay in The New York Times Sunday Magazine about his life as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, and has advocated for immigration reform while testifying in front of a U.S. Senate committee.

Vargas also wrote and directed “White People” — a program that aired on MTV about what it means to be young and white in the United States.

The lecture is sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs, Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Latina/o Graduate Student Association, Multicultural Student Affairs, Multicultural Student Programming Advisory Council, Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority and the Committee on Lectures.