PBS commentator Ray Suarez to speak at Pomfret School on January 27 as 2013 Schwartz Visiting Fellow

Well-known commentator will address public on Sunday, January 27 on the Pomfret Campus and spend next two days as journalist-in-residence

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Ray Suarez, senior commentator for NewsHour on PBS and former host of NPR's "Talk of the Nation," will speak at Pomfret School Sunday, January 27, at 8:00 PM in Hard Auditorium. The event is free.

POMFRET, CT (01/09/2013)(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. The topic of Mr. 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.

Followers of the Washington-based journalist know him as a seasoned observer of the changing social, political, and religious landscape in the U.S. Mr. 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."

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. 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. There will be no dearth of ideas and insights to share: Mr. Suarez also currently hosts the monthly America Abroad for NPR, and the weekly Destination Casa Blanca radio program for Hispanic Information Telecommunications Network. He also wrote The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, which was published in 1999.

Suarez will also be in good company. 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.

The address will be free and open to the public. A brief reception will follow.