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RAY SUAREZ ~ BIOGRAPHY~

Ray Suarez joined The News Hour with in October 1999 as a Washington-based senior correspondent responsible for conducting newsmaker interviews, studio discussion and debates, reporting from the field and serving as a backup anchor. Suarez has more than twenty-five years of varied experience in the news business. He came to The News Hour from National Public Radio (NPR) where he was host Intimate gatherings of academic and of the nationwide, call-in news program, “” since 1993. Prior to community leaders to share ideas and that, he spent seven years covering local, national, and international stories for the encourage progress NBC-owned station,WMAQ-TV in . Suarez wrote the recent book,The Old Neighborhood:What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, and has contributed to several others, including in 2001, Saving America’s Treasures in 2000, Las Christmas: Favorite Latino Authors 7:30 Breakfast Share Their Holiday Memories in 1998, and About Men in 1986. His essays and criticisms have been published in The Times,The Washington Post,The Chicago Tribune, and The Baltimore Sun, among other publications. 8:00 Introductions Suarez was also a Los Angeles correspondent for CNN, a producer for the ABC David Young Radio Network in New York, a reporter for CBS Radio in , and a reporter for various American and British news services in . Over the years he has Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences narrated, anchored or reported many special programs and documentaries for st public radio and television including a weekly series, Follow the Money on PBS, A Search for the 21 Century Community “The Execution Tapes,” “Through Our Own Eyes,” “Take This Heart,” “State of the Ray Suarez Union,” “Of Hopes and Fears,” and “Growing Up Scared.” Questions and Answers Suarez shared in NPR’s 1993-94 and 1994-95 duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Awards for on-site coverage of the first all-race elections in South Africa and the 9:00 Conclusion first 100 days of the 104th Congress, respectively. He has been honored with the 1996 Ruben Salazaar Award from the National Council of La Raza, Current History magazine’s 1995 Global Awareness Award, and a Chicago Emmy Award. Suarez holds a BA in African History from and an MA in the Social Sciences from the , where he studied urban affairs. He was awarded honorary degrees by Westminster College in Salt Lake City in 2000, and at St. John’s University and Manhattan Marymount College in 2003. He’s also been honored with an Alumni Achievement Award from NYU, and a Professional Achievement Award from the University of Chicago. A longtime member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Suarez is a founding member of the Chicago Association of Hispanic Journalists.