{"id":820,"date":"2019-08-19T13:47:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T18:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=820"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:12:36","slug":"zachary-suri","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/zachary-suri\/","title":{"rendered":"Zachary Suri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zachary Suri is a host, co-producer, and poet-in-residence for This is Democracy.\u00a0Zachary is an undergraduate at Yale University, where he studies languages, history, and literature. He writes regularly for the Yale Daily News.\u00a0Zachary\u2019s poetry has been published by numerous publications, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2019\/09\/opinion\/teen-poets-speak-on-gun-violence\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanitus.com\/author\/zacharysuri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Urbanitus.com<\/a>. He was the 2022-2023 Austin Youth Poet Laureate and a recipient of the Scholastic Art &amp; Writing Awards Silver Key and AISD Trustees\u2019 Scholar Award. You can hear him discuss his poetry on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kutkutx.studio\/kut-news-now\/austins-youth-poet-laureate-on-making-sense-of-feelings-through-poetry?fbclid=IwAR1ptuOjASQ8KmhwC8J8gA4PXOfmUPQypJgoidS7BWYei8TzxR754UnhRVo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public radio<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3876,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-820","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Host, Poet and Co-Producer of This is Democracy","speaker_last_name":"Suri","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/820\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}