This informal conversation on November 21, 2024 featured Pedro X. Molina, an editorial cartoonist from Nicaragua. The session was in Spanish. Pedro fled Nicaragua during a crackdown on dissent in 2018. He was a resident of Ithaca City of Asylum in Ithaca, NY, where he taught at Ithaca College, then was an Artist Protection Fund Fellow in residence at Cornell University's Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. He received pro bono legal assistance from the Artistic Freedom Initiative.
Pedro remains an important voice in his home country. Among his many honors are a Vaclav Havel Award for Creative Dissent, a Gabo Award for Excellence, a Maria Moors Cabot Award from Columbia Journalism School, and the Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award from Cartoonists Rights. He was also a finalist for the prestigious Herblock Prize 2024.