She will present her talk, titled “Who Takes Care of Nanny’s Children,” at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in McEwen Hall, room 011.  The talk is free and open to the public. McEwen Hall is the home of Elon’s School of Communications. 

Santos’ talk explores cases in which a mother must leave her own children behind, sometimes for years, to earn money as a nanny caring for the children of a wealthier family in another country. In one example, she details the family conflicts for a mother who worked as a nanny for seven years in Saudi Arabia. An estimated 1.2 million Filipino overseas workers hold jobs in Saudi Arabia.

Santos, a freelance reporter, was recently named Persephone Miel Fellow by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization that seeks to sponsor international reporting on important social issues. The fellowship provides continued financial support for her reporting. She will visit Elon during her short stay in the United States to confer with Pulitzer Center editors. 

The School of Communications holds a collegiate affiliation with the Pulitzer Center that provides visits by promising journalists such as Santos. In addition to her speech, she will speak in several class sessions across campus and meet informally with groups of students, including those with student-media organizations. 

In Taylor described the mutually beneficial relationship between the paper and journalism students in Elon’s School of Communications. The paper provides opportunities; the students gain learning experiences while supplying useful coverage in the community. 

He noted that associate professor Janna Anderson helped initiate the program.

“At different parts of the year Elon students make their way to our office as interns or to produce projects of one kind or another for their classes,” Taylor writes. “We’re happy to have them in any capacity. They seem to like it, too.”

Davis earned bachelor’s degrees in International Studies and Business. He wrote the paper as an Elon College fellow. He and Scott collaborated because of their interests in Japan. Davis conducted research while studying for one semester at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan.

Scott, a faculty member in Elon’s School of Communications, joined with mentors Donald L. Shaw and the late Robert L. Stevenson to produce an overview of the mass media system in the United States. 

Professor Wolfgang Donsbach of Dresden University of Technology in Germany edited the 12-volume encyclopedia. 

The book, which was published this year by Peter Lang Publishing, is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students studying public relations.