Featured Guest Speaker

John Quiñones

Emmy award-winning journalist John Quiñones headlines Scottsdale’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Dinner Celebration on Jan. 12, 2012. For 25 years, he has reported extensively for ABC News, predominantly serving as a correspondent for "Primetime" and “20/20.” Quiñones’ recent work includes a series of reports entitled “What Would You Do?” The reports test human nature through hidden camera scenarios. Quiñones joined ABC News in June 1982 as a general assignment correspondent based in Miami, providing reports for "World News Tonight With Peter Jennings" and other ABC News broadcasts. Before joining ABC News, Quiñones was a reporter with WBBM-TV in Chicago and a news editor at KTRH radio in Houston, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communications from St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, and a master's from the Columbia School of Journalism.