From Journalism to Activism: Jose Antonio Vargas’s Life On the Run

By: Marc Fisher | The Washington Post

Jose Antonio Vargas is running. He’s fresh off the red-eye from California to Dulles — his third overnight flight in as many weeks — to deliver yet another speech. He grabs his backpack and goes, delivering nearly 300 talks in 44 states over the past three years. He has moved, in just five years, from Washington to New York to San Francisco. He’s in a hurry to convince his fellow Americans that people like him should be considered fellow Americans.