The spring session of the Los Altos Morning Forum will include talks by Katie Anderson, Los Altos High School graduate (class of 1993), and Jose Antonio Vargas, Mountain View High School graduate (class of 1999).
Anderson will speak to the Forum on March 3. She graduated from Almond and Egan prior to Los Altos High School. Her father, Hardy Jones, made the sculpture mascots for each of the Los Altos schools. Her experience at Los Altos High prepared her for Stanford and a Fulbright Scholarship in Australia. She credits her three years in Mock Trial at Los Altos High for giving her confidence in public speaking, experience with team work, and a foundation for her success as an author, consultant and professional speaker.
Vargas, who will speak to the Forum on March 17, is a journalist, filmmaker and immigration rights activist. Sent from the Philippines to live with his grandparents at age 12, he attended Crittenden Middle School and Mountain View High School. His high school English teacher introduced him to journalism, and in 1998 he began an internship at the Mountain View Voice. Vargas was part of The Washington Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2008 for coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting online and in print.
Morning Forum is a longstanding speaker series. For more information, visit morningforum.org.
