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Raul Ramirez has been News and Public Affairs Director of KQED Public Radio since 1991. He has worked as reporter for The Miami Herald and The Washington Post and as a reporter and editor for the Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Examiner. He is President of the Board of the Center for Investigative Reporting and has won numerous awards for local, national and international reporting, including a Penny Missouri first place awarded to the San Francisco Examiner for the landmark 1989 series, "Gay in America," which he coedited and a Thomas Storke Award from the World Affairs of Northern California for his reporting on a family's migration from China. In 1993, he was among a small number of news directors at National Public Radio member stations to create local civic journalism partnership experiments in five U.S. regions, including the Bay Area. The resulting Bay Area Voice of the Voter partnership including KQED-FM, the San Francisco Chronicle and KRON-TV has been one of the most successful public-commercial civic journalism projects in the country. In 1999, he received a career achievement award from the Society of Professional Journalists of Northern California for his print and broadcast work. He is a former Fellow in Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii"s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and a 1994 research Fellow at Harvard"s Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. He has taught journalism courses at San Francisco State University since 1983. He also has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, CSU-Hayward and San Jose State University and has been a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute in Media Studies, where is now an Ethics Fellow.