Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. She covered the final two years of the Obama presidency, and during the 2016 presidential campaign she was assigned to cover Hillary Clinton. In 2018, Keith was elected to serve on the board of the White House Correspondents’ Association.

Previously Keith covered congress for NPR with an emphasis on House Republicans, the budget, taxes, and the fiscal fights that dominated at the time. Keith earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree at the UCB Graduate School of Journalism. Keith is part of the Politics Monday team on the PBS NewsHour, a weekly segment rounding up the latest political news.

This event will be moderated by Professor Ray La Raja. Professor La Raja is Associate Dean at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and professor in political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he is also Associate Director of the UMass Poll. His research focuses on political parties, elections and political reform. He is co-author of Race, Class and Representation in Local Politics and Campaign Finance and Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail.  La Raja is founding editor of The Forum, a journal of applied research in contemporary American politics. He is a contributor to several studies by the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.  He received his B.A. and M.P.P. from Harvard University and his PhD in political science from UC Berkeley.

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