i'm maria hinojosa, and this is one on one. ( laughter ) bill strickland, it's great to have you on the show. >> it's nice to be here, maria. >> hinojosa: we're already laughing. ( laughing ) so many people might not know your face, and they might not even know the organization that you run, which is manchester bidwell in pittsburgh, but what you have done, essentially, is dedicated your life to looking at poor, disadvantaged communities and people and saying, "i see amazing potential." >> correct. i believe that most people are born into the world as assets, not liabilities. it's all in the way you treat people that drives behavior, so on the basis of the insight-- which is largely autobiographical-- i built a center in pittsburgh beginning in the 1960s to work with kids in the streets during the riots and unemployed adults during the early 1970s. and i redefined the strategy to work with public school kids who are at risk by using the arts as way of redeeming their souls and creating opportunity for life, and recovering unemployed individuals largely on public assistance by putting th

i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. sonia nazario, welcome to our program. >> it's great to be here. >> hinojosa: you wrote an amazing book called enrique's journey, and this documented the journey of one young boy from honduras who spent 122 days leaving honduras to come and find his mother in the united states, and he did it all alone. and you spent five years essentially recreating his story and reporting this book. and i have to tell you that the reporting in this book is extraordinary. >> thank you. >> hinojosa: i mean, you actually... you meet this little boy when he's 15 years old on the u.s./mexico border, and what makes you decide to say, "i'm going to tell the story of enrique"? >> well, i wanted to tell more broadly the story of these millions of women who have come to the united states from mexico and central america. you know, around the country, we know these women. they clean our homes, they clean our offices, they take care of our children. among latinos, they are women in our families. they've come here

i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org krzysztof wodiczko, welcome to our show. most people are going to know your work. they might hear the name krzysztof wodiczko maybe, but when we say that the work that you have done as a conceptual artist is huge projeions on buildings, then they'll say, "ah yes, i know krzysztof; i know krzysztof." why this idea of projecting-- making your art so public? what is it that you want to communicate? you want to make it free and accessible to everyone, but the message that you're trying to say to people is what with your work? >> well, since the late '80s, i'm employing in my work video that is motion and sound, and possibility of recording and editing and transmitting voices-- voice and gesture of a person, people. so from that time on, i would think that the reason is to turn those of whom we know nothing or who are hidden-- invisible-- residents of our cities into projectors so they can project themselves on a large scale and open

i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. ming tsai, it's great to have you on this show. >> thank you; it's great to be here. >> hinojosa: so people know you because of your televisions show simply ming, they might know you because of your books, or they might know you because of your restaurant blue ginger. but here's the question that i have for you. so you are third-generation yalie... >> correct. >> hinojosa: but you... even though your grandfather studied at yale, he went back to china. your dad studied at yale, and then ended up... >> and stayed. >> hinojosa: ...staying here. >> yup. >> hinojosa: you're then born... >> i was born in newport beach, california. my brother and i. >> hinojosa: and you grow up in dayton, ohio. >> and we ended up in dayton, ohio. culinary capitol of the world. >> hinojosa: you know, i didn't know this about dayton, ohio! >> ( laughing ) yeah, no; not so much. >> hinojosa: but the questions was how was it, you know, growing up-- and you were the first chinese family in dayton, or one of the fe