UCSB Arts & Lectures will present a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Caitlin Dickerson, Deported: The Price of Our Prosperity, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 5 at UCSB Campbell Hall.

An investigative journalist, Dickerson has spent more than a decade covering deportation and migration. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2023 for her reporting on the forcible separation of children from their families, and her work has also earned a Peabody, an Edward R. Murrow award and honors from the National Association of Black Journalists.

America’s deportation system — and the fear surrounding it — has affected millions in the United States, including children, over recent decades.

A staff writer at The Atlantic and formerly with The New York Times and NPR, Dickerson’s talk will illuminate how Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out its current mandate.

From Ukraine to Romania to Guatemala, Dickerson has spent years covering refugees and other humanitarian crises for some of the nation’s foremost news outlets.

On stage, she dispels common myths about the forcibly displaced and breaks down the seemingly complex forces that influence their life trajectories, from policy to rhetoric and public sentiment, according to Arts & Lecture.

A staff writer for The Atlantic, Dickerson has broken stories that have led policies to be reversed and lives to change.

For a 2024 cover story, she crossed one of the most dangerous migration routes in the world, The Darien Gap, to portray what people were willing to risk to reach safety and stability.

She won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for her September 2022 cover story “We Need to Take Away Children.”

Tickets to Dickerson’s talk are $20, general public; free for UCSB students with current student ID.

For tickets or more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures, 805-893-3535, or buy online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.