Ithaca College

The Ithaca College Honors Program in collaboration with the non-profit organization Ithaca City of Asylum are pleased to announce our new International Visiting Scholar! 

Pedro Molina is an international scholar and internationally acclaimed political cartoonist, illustrator, and journalist from Nicaragua. In December 2018, when the offices of news media outlet Confidencial were taken over by government forces, Molina fled his country during a national crackdown on journalists and government critics. He and his colleagues continue to publish daily in Confidencial.com.ni, either from exile or from other locations in Nicaragua.

In summer 2019, Molina won the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Award in international journalism from Columbia Journalism School for “career excellence and coverage of the Western Hemisphere that furthers inter-American understanding.”

Molina’s work has been published in various books, including several editions of Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year by Pelican in the United States and the Gallimard/Cartooning for Peace collection in France.

We invite you to help us welcome Pedro Molina at Ithaca City of Asylum’s annual Voices of Freedom event at 8 pm on Friday, Oct. 4 at the Community School of Music and Arts (330 E State St, Ithaca, NY 14850); it will feature a presentation by Molina and include a welcome party for him and his family.

Pedro Molina is available to speak in classes on topics related to cartooning; graphic expression in its various forms; defense of human rights through art; global political issues via the lens of cartooning; humor and satire from both historical and contemporary perspectives; freedom of speech, journalism; and Latin American society and politics. If you would like to schedule a time for him to present to your class, please reach out directly to pmolinablandon@ithaca.edu or honors@ithaca.edu or visit https://www.ithaca.edu/honors/vis/