Ray Suarez is currently a visiting professor at NYU Shanghai and was previously the John J McCloy Visiting professor of American Studies at Amherst College.
17 Facts About Ray Suarez
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Ray Suarez was the host of Inside Story on Al Jazeera America Story, a daily news program on Al Jazeera America, until that network ceased operation in 2016.
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Ray Suarez joined the PBS NewsHour in 1999 and was a senior correspondent for the evening news program on the PBS television network until 2013.
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Ray Suarez is host of the international news and analysis public radio program America Abroad from Public Radio International.
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Ray Suarez was the host of the National Public Radio program Talk of the Nation from 1993 to 1999.
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Ray Suarez is currently one of the US correspondents for Euronews.
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In 2009, Ray Suarez was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award by the NCAC.
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Ray Suarez earned a BA in African History from New York University and an MA in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.
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Ray Suarez is active locally and nationally in the Episcopal Church.
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Ray Suarez began working at the campus radio station of New York University upon enrolling there as a student in 1974 and eventually became the station's news director.
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Ray Suarez later worked as a freelance reporter in London and Rome, and in 1981 his coverage of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II led to his being hired by CBS Radio.
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Ray Suarez was, in turn, hired by ABC and then CNN.
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Ray Suarez became a regular correspondent for the PBS NewsHour on October 4,1999.
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Ray Suarez was a contributing editor for Si Magazine, a short-lived magazine depicting the Latino experience in the US.
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Ray Suarez hosted the program Destination Casa Blanca, produced by HITN TV from 2008 to 2011.
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Ray Suarez is a contributor to the Oxford Companion to American Politics, and wrote the companion volume to a PBS documentary series on the history of Latinos in America, Latino Americans: The 500-Year History That Shaped a Nation published by Penguin in 2013.
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Ray Suarez co-wrote and hosted the 2009 documentary for PBS Jerusalem: Center of the World, and narrated for PBS Anatomy of a Pandemic, on the H1N1 outbreak.