Earlier this morning, Maria Hinojosa gave a talk at the inaugural TEDx Pennsyvania Ave event in Washington, D.C. There was a livestream, so all of us here at Latino USA (and the rest of The Futuro Media Group) got to see Maria proudly represent the work she and the entire team do. In a few weeks (very likely after the July 4 break), the official video of her TEDx talk will be made public. Once our team gets access to that video, we will share it on this site, along with a final transcript of her talk. In the meantime, I did want to share some Twitter highlights from today’s talk, since some of these tweets do capture the spirit of Maria’s words and why she does what she does. By the way, apologies in advance for some of my own gushy tweets, but I can’t help it: they really do explain how I feel about this place and my boss (FYI, she would be the first person to tell me to call her “a colleague” and a “a friend).

Anyway, here’s what Twitter said (including tweets from some of us here at Futuro Media):

“I point my microphone at voices unheard and narratives untold.” @Maria_Hinojosa at @TEDxPennAve.

— Latino USA on NPR (@LatinoUSA) June 24, 2015

@Maria_Hinojosa gave an amazing talk today! #TEDxPennAve15

— Lina Garcia (@LinaGarciaDC) June 24, 2015

@Maria_Hinojosa: making invisible peple visible in the media & telling the stories of all people. #TEDxPennAve15

— Success for All (@SFAeducation) June 24, 2015

“We don’t approach this massive demographic change as something that needs to be feared.” @Maria_Hinojosa at @TEDxPennAve

— Latino USA on NPR (@LatinoUSA) June 24, 2015

@Maria_Hinojosa is raising her voice on TedX Penn Ave and redefining what is news. Thank you, Maria!

— Roy Cosme (@RoyCosme) June 24, 2015

@Maria_Hinojosa Fantastic TedTalk Maria! Through you, America will understand the Latino lens on news!

—  Roy  Cosme (@rcosme_2010) June 24, 2015

.@Maria_Hinojosa brings up @TEDxPennAve the issue of why it’s important to tell the stories of immigration detention centers in news now.

— Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77) June 24, 2015

@Maria_Hinojosa is hitting on all cylinders the importance of mass news coverage and not being selective in what is reported #TEDxPennAve15

— Gary Banks II (@GaryBanks_ii) June 24, 2015

“Who gets to tell the story matters.” Wisdom from NPR’s @Maria_Hinojosa #TEDxPennAve15

— Jordan Campbell (@JrdnCmpbll) June 24, 2015

.@Maria_Hinojosa making the invisible visible. Thank you! #TedxPennAve15

— Esther Berg (@estherberg) June 24, 2015

I don’t use the word minority or illegal to describe myself or others. @maria_hinojosa #TEDxPennAve15 ✊🏾

— Wendy Dixon-DuBois (@DixonDuBois) June 24, 2015

@Maria_Hinojosa is hitting on all cylinders the importance of mass news coverage and not being selective in what is reported #TEDxPennAve15

— Gary Banks II (@GaryBanks_ii) June 24, 2015

@Maria_Hinojosa that was my path too immigrant to citizen invisible to visible #TEDxPennAve15 @futuromedia @LatinoUSA @dandpcs Congrats!

— Ingrid Duran (@IngridDuran) June 24, 2015

@ACampoverdi wish you were here #TEDxPennAve15 @Maria_Hinojosa sharing her American story.

— Theresa Reno-Weber (@RenoWeber) June 24, 2015

@Maria_Hinojosa taking charge @futuromedia @LatinoUSA creating our own media images and telling stories. #TEDxPennAve15 @DavidMedinaDC

— Ingrid Duran (@IngridDuran) June 24, 2015

“I created my on newsroom, a team committed to diversity & tell our story” @Maria_Hinojosa #TEDxPennAve15 Watch live: http://t.co/kOV1gkLyXp

— TEDxPennsylvaniaAve (@TEDxPennAve) June 24, 2015

can’t wait to see video from @Maria_Hinojosa‘s #TEDxPennAve15 talk!

— Darian Symoné Harvin (@dariansymone) June 24, 2015

We can’t wait to see it either.