Julian Rubinstein, Armando Montaño Memorial Lecture and Film Screening

The Armando “Mando” Alters Montaño ’12 Memorial Lecture honors the memory of Mando Alters Montaño, an inspiring young writer and journalist who died while working in Mexico City shortly after graduation in 2012. 

Julian Rubinstein is an award-winning journalist, educator, author and documentary filmmaker. His new non-fiction book, The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood, was the winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award and the 2022 High Plains Book Award and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His documentary, also called The Holly, won multiple awards at film festivals in 2022 and will be released in theaters in February 2023. His first book, Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award. His magazine work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, and others. He is a visiting professor of the practice in documentary journalism at the University of Denver.

Also, please join Rubinstein for a roundtable event at 4:15 p.m. in the Humanities and Social Studies Center (HSSC) Room S1325.