Faith Smith

The night of September 9 appeared to fulfill all the promise underlying NBC Universal's ambitious $2.7 billion acquisition in 2001 of Telemundo, the second-largest Spanish language television network in the U.S. On that night, the NBC sibling carried President Obama's important healthcare address to a joint session of Congress-on a slight delay to allow for dubbing into Spanish-followed by its highest-rated program ever, which reached more than 5 million viewers.

Faith Smith, writing on the blog of Steve Clemons of the New American Foundation found it "difficult to say which side is democratic." She noted approvingly that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while criticizing the coup offered "no specific support for Zelaya."

Program Associate, The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program

As Program Associate for the Bernard Schwartz Fellows Program, Faith Smith supports the director in the overall organization of the program as well as providing substantive research for the fellows. Before joining New America, Ms. Smith interned for Amnesty International in Los Angeles. Her interests include human rights, increasing the… more