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Zachary Suri

Zachary Suri is the co-host, co-producer, and poet-in-residence for This is Democracy. Zachary is an undergraduate at Yale University, where he studies languages, history, and literature. He writes regularly for the Yale Daily News. Zachary’s poetry has been published by numerous publications, including CNN.com and Urbanitus.com. He was the 2022-2023 Austin Youth Poet Laureate and a recipient of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Silver Key and AISD Trustees’ Scholar Award. You can hear him discuss his poetry on public radio. 

Host On

  • This is Democracy – Episode 299: Southern Politics: Past and Present
  • This is Democracy – Episode 298: Iran-Contra and its Legacies
  • This is Democracy – Episode 297: Free Speech and Repression in Turkey
  • This is Democracy – Episode 296: Israel-Palestine
  • This is Democracy – Episode 295: Broadcasting Democracy

Guest On

  • This is Democracy: Episode 164 – Better Thinking for Democracy
  • This is Democracy: Episode 163 – Shadow Docket and Abortion
  • This is Democracy: Episode 162 – Refugees in Afghanistan and Across the Globe
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