Paola Ramos

Paola Ramos is an author and Emmy-Award winning journalist and a member of Type Media Center's board of trustees. She is a contributor for Telemundo News and MSNBC, where she is the host of “Field Report.” Ramos is a former Correspondent for Vice News. Her reporting has taken her from embedding with migrants in the Darien Jungle to interviewing cartel members in the US-Mexico border to deeply exploring Latinos’ shifting political identities across the nation. Prior to her career in journalism, Ramos was the Deputy Director of Hispanic Media for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, a political appointee during the Obama Administration, and served in President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. Ramos is the author of an upcoming book “Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right,” which will be published by Penguin Random House this Fall, ahead of the 2024 presidential elections. She is also the author of “Finding Latin-X: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity.” She is a former Hauser Leader in the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, where she received her Master’s in Public Policy, and recently joined the board of trustees of her alma mater, Barnard College. Ramos was born in Miami to Cuban and Mexican parents, grew up in Madrid, and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.