In her shoes.

Maria Hinojosa, anchor of Latino USA on NPR and reporter for NOW on PBS, kicked off the Women, Action and the Media conference in Cambridge, MA, last night.

Hinojosa is one of the few Latina journalists out there. And she’s good. Really good.

On good journalism:

"Where there’s an injustice you report on it. You give voice to the voiceless. People see this as political."

The essence of journalism: "Who's getting screwed, and why."

She just got back from South Dakota to report on the recent anti-abortion ban and said to watch for the NOW report on April 14. She also warned that now that there’s so much flak over the strict exception to the law that lawmakers are back tracking and saying that there are exceptions when really there aren’t.

My fave part of her appearance – her really great, sequin-encrusted shoes. She told us that she just took her daughter on her first shopping trip and told her, “Remember this: never pay full price.”