Paola Ramos (journalist)

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Paola Ramos
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Ramos at the 2024 Texas Book Festival.
Born1987 (age 36–37)
Miami, Florida, U.S.
OccupationJournalist
LanguageEnglish
Spanish
Alma mater Barnard College (BA)
Harvard University (MPP)
Years active2016 – present
Relatives Jorge Ramos (father)

Paola Ramos (born 1987) is an American journalist. Her most recent book is "Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America," published in September 2024. Ramos was a correspondent for Vice and is a contributor to Telemundo and MSNBC. Ramos' work focuses on issues affecting Latinos in the U.S. and Latin America. Ramos has been featured, been a correspondent, or has served as a subject matter expert, in Latina , [1] Popsugar , [2] Bustle , [3] Vice , [4] Los Angeles Blade, [5] South Kern Sol, [6] HIV Plus Magazine, [7] and on KCRW. [8]

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Early life and education

Paola Ramos was born in 1987 [9] in Miami, Florida. [1] She grew up in Spain. [2] Her mother, Gina Montaner, was born in Cuba and her father is Mexican journalist Jorge Ramos. [1] Ramos graduated from Barnard College with a BA in Political Science and Government in 2009 and earned her Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2015. [10] [3] [11] [12]

Career

Ramos served in the Obama administration, including working for both President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, and served as Deputy Director of Hispanic Media for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. [1] [11] In 2019, Ramos became a correspondent for Vice's documentary series, Vice, and Vice News Tonight. She is the prior host to Vice's docuseries Latin-X. [13] [14] For her work at Vice, she was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for her piece "The Latinx Drag Queens Spearheading HIV Activism on the Border". [15] That same year, Ramos keynoted George Washington University's LatinX Heritage Celebration. [16] She currently serves as an on-air contributor to Telemundo and MSNBC and also serves as speaker for Lesbians Who Tech + Allies. [11] [16] Ramos hosted Field Report with Paola Ramos on MSNBC in 2022. [17]

Personal life

Ramos lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, with her fiancée, De’Ara Balenger, and their mini-goldendoodle, Dida. [18] [19]

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  2. 1 2 Foresto, Alessandra (November 8, 2016). "Paola Ramos, Deputy Director of Hispanic Media, 20s". POPSUGAR Latina. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  3. 1 2 Gladu, Alex (March 10, 2016). "Who Is Jorge Ramos' Daughter, Paola?". Bustle. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
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  10. ↑ 🖉 "FINDING LATINX with journalist and activist Paola Ramos '09". our.barnard.edu.
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  15. ↑ "GLAAD Media Awards Nominees #glaadawards". GLAAD. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  16. 1 2 Wilson, B.L. "Host of VICE's 'LatinX' Advocates for Inclusion". GW Today. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
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  19. ↑ https://www.thepitchkc.com/paola-ramos/
  20. ↑ Cadava, Geraldo (October 9, 2024). "The Challenge of Mapping the Latino Right". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 13, 2024.
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  23. ↑ Rodríguez, Jesús (September 28, 2024). "Democrats thought Latinos were a lock. MAGA disrupted it all". Washington Post. Retrieved October 13, 2024.
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