Raul Ramirez is Executive Director of News and Public Affairs for KQED Public Radio, which he joined in 1991 as News Director. 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 has won numerous awards for local, national and international reporting, including a Career Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, a Penny Missouri first place awarded to the San Francisco Examiner for the landmark 1989 series, "Gay in America," which he co-edited and a Thomas Storke Award from the World Affairs of Northern California for his reporting on a family's migration from China. 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 at San Francisco State since 1983. He also has taught at UC-Berkeley, CSU-Hayward and San Jose State and has been a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute in Media Studies, where he was an Ethics Fellow. He was a principal writer for the seminal UNITY national conference analysis of U.S. media coverage of ethnic and racial minorities, and frequently lectures on topics related to diversity and news media. He has led investigative reporting and civic journalism training workshops at the European Journalism Center in The Netherlands and in Eastern Europe in collaboration with the Journalists’ Initiative Association of Kharkiv, Ukraine. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Regional Media and Information, a non-profit organization of Ukrainian and international journalists created to aid and promote the development of independent media in Ukraine.