He has contributed to several others, including Totally Brooklyn (Workman, 2001), Saving America’s Treasures (National Geographic, 2000), Las Christmas: Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories (Knopf, 1998), and About Men (Poseidon, 1986). Suarez’s most recent book is The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, 1966-1999 (Free Press, 1999). He is senior correspondent for “PBS NewsHour” and host of “Destination Casa Blanca” on HITN TV. Suarez was host of the nationwide, call-in news program “Talk of the Nation” from 1993-99. A brief reception will follow.A 25-year journalism veteran, Ray Suarez has covered historic events across globe, from the first all-race elections in South Africa in 1994 to the first 100 days of the 104th Congress and the Republican’s Contract with America during the first term of Bill Clinton. The address will be free and open to the public. His visit marks the twenty-fifth year the school has been welcoming Schwartz Visiting Fellows, which in the past has included such cultural luminaries as Carole Simpson, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Sergei Kruschev, Bill Bryson, Robert Ballard, Frank McCourt, Joyce Carol Oates, David McCullough, Madame Jehan Sadat, Edward Albee, and Shirley Chisholm, who holds the distinction of being the inaugural Schwartz Fellow.
He also wrote The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, which was published in 1999. Suarez also currently hosts the monthly America Abroad for NPR, and the weekly Destination Casa Blanca radio program for Hispanic Information Telecommunications Network. There will be no dearth of ideas and insights to share: Mr. As journalist-in-residence, he will follow up his public address with two days of discussions, panels, and classroom time with Pomfret faculty and students. The Sunday night presentation will mark the beginning of Suarez's three-day stay on the Pomfret campus as this year's Schwartz Visiting Fellow. Suarez is also a prolific author, and has recently published The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America, which, according to his PBS profile, "examines the tightening relationship between religion and politics in America." Suarez's address will be "America 2.0," which is the term he uses to characterize the significant ways America has changed in recent times-and continues to change.įollowers of the Washington-based journalist know him as a seasoned observer of the changing social, political, and religious landscape in the U.S. POMFRET, CT ()(readMedia)- Ray Suarez, well-known PBS senior correspondent for the network's weekly NewsHour, and former host of NPR's Talk of The Nation, will be speaking at Pomfret School on Sunday, January 27, at 8:00 PM in the school's Hard Auditorium.
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