Jose Antonio Vargas: Defining American

Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and founder and CEO of Define American, never knew he was an undocumented immigrant until he was denied a driver’s license at 16. Today, Vargas has used his identity and the power of storytelling to shift the conversation on immigration, citizenship, and identity in America. Vargas’s work and story asks the question, “How do you define ‘American’?”