18 Facts About Ray Suarez

Ray Suarez is currently host of the PBS series "Wisdom Keepers" set to premiere on the public network in June 2025.

Ray Suarez was a visiting professor at NYU Shanghai in 2022, and was previously the John J McCloy Visiting professor of American Studies at Amherst College.

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.

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.

Ray Suarez was host of the international news and analysis public radio program America Abroad from Public Radio International.

Ray Suarez was the host of the National Public Radio program Talk of the Nation from 1993 to 1999.

In 2009, Ray Suarez was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award by the NCAC.

Ray Suarez earned a BA in African History from New York University and an MA in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.

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.

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.

Ray Suarez was, in turn, hired by ABC and then CNN.

Ray Suarez became a regular correspondent for AM Weather in 1989 as one the one of the rotating hosts.

Ray Suarez became a regular correspondent for the PBS NewsHour on October 4,1999.

Ray Suarez was a contributing editor for Si Magazine, a short-lived magazine depicting the Latino experience in the US.

Ray Suarez hosted the program Destination Casa Blanca, produced by HITN TV from 2008 to 2011.

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.

Ray Suarez has contributed to many other books, including How I Learned English, Brooklyn: A State of Mind, Saving America's Treasures, and About Men.

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.