For speaking requests contact Jodi Solomon Speakers Bureau & click here for a short bio. Daisy Hernández is the author of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth (Hogarth Press, 2026). Of the work, Sandra Cisneros says: “How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non-citizens alike. Brilliant!” She is also the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease (Tin House, 2021), which won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and was selected as an inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. The book was named a top 10 nonfiction book of 2021 by Time magazine and was a finalist for the New American Voices Award. She has spoken about the subject of her book—neglected disease and racial disparities in healthcare—on MSNBC and also with the Carter Center and the Pan American Health Organization.