Lafayette Library AND
learning center foundation
Civic Conversations Series Presents
Ray Suarez
with
Deborah Jian Lee,
Economic Hardship Reporting Project

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
7:00 PM | Don Tatzin Community Hall
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LIFE ON THE EDGE
Join renowned broadcaster and author Ray Suarez for a look at what it means to be an immigrant in America. As told in Suarez's book, We are Home, immigrants often face countless obstacles, hatred and may often live on the edge in the richest country in the world. Ray will be joined in conversation by Deborah Jian Lee, Senior Editor, for the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Ray Suarez was a correspondent and anchor a public television's nightly newscast The PBS NewsHour for 14 years. He is the host of On Shifting Ground, a syndicated radio program on NRP and PRX stations across the U.S. Suarez's latest book is We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century: An Oral History.
Deborah Jian Lee is an award-winning journalist and radio producer, journalism fellow at Harvard Divinity School and the author of Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism (Beacon Press). She has worked as a staff reporter for the Associated Press, taught journalism at Columbia University, and has bylines in Esquire, Fast Company, ELLE, Foreign Policy, TIME, WBEZ and others. Winner of a Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award and the Education Writers Association’s Eddie Prize, she was also named a finalist for the Livingston Awards.
Books available for purchase at the event include We Are Home by Ray Suarez and Going For Broke, from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
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This program is part of the Lafayette Library and Learning Center 15th Anniversary Civic Conversation Series hosted by the Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation. The Lafayette Library Foundation's 15th Anniversary Program Series is sponsored in part by Orchard Nursery and Friends of the Lafayette Library. Proceeds from this event benefit the Lafayette Library.
