Convocation: Ray Suarez

Ray Suarez has more than twenty-five years of varied experience in the news business, covering such issues as immigration, education, and the relationship of religion in politics. As a Washington-based senior correspondent for the PBS program "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," he is responsible for conducting newsmaker interviews, studio discussion and debates, reporting from the field and serving as a backup anchor. He came to "The NewsHour" from National Public Radio where he had been host of the nationwide call-in news program "Talk of the Nation." He also currently serves as host for American RadioWorks, the documentary unit of American Public Media (http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org). The title of his presentation is "The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America."