The Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government

Spring 08 Spring Symposium: March 31, 2008
The Road to the White House: Tough Choices

At the UCF Student Union's Pegasus Ballroom

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Keynote Address by MTV News Team coorespondent SuChin Pak

SuChin Pak joined the MTV News Team as a correspondent in May of 2001.
Over the years, she's interviewed everyone from P. Diddy, to Jane's
Addiction to Mary J. Blige, Justin Timberlake, Billy Idol, Britney Spears
and Gwen Stefani, just to get started. She's co-hosted the Video Music
Awards, the Movie Awards and Grammy Pre-shows. SuChin has been on the red
carpet for the Oscars, Golden Globes and the Sundance Film Festival. Most
recently, she's reported for MTV's Choose or Lose campaign, traveling the
country to cover the presidential election and youth voting issues. Some
stories from the field for Choose or Lose
include: live reports from Bush headquarters in Washington D.C. on election
night, youth voting patterns in swing states, protests on affirmative
action, reproductive rights and the environment and live coverage from the
Republican and Democratic National Conventions.
SuChin also traveled to Thailand for the "MTV News Special: After the
Tsunami" and co-hosted a special edition of TRL dedicated to raising
donations for the victims of the tragedy.

SuChin's biggest project this past year has been hosting and producing the
documentary series, "My Life Translated." A series for MTV, the
documentaries deal with the lives of young people growing up in America with
parents from different countries and cultures.

SuChin never planned on a career in television. During high school while
volunteering for Youth in Government, an organization aimed at involving and
educating young people in the political process, SuChin was interviewed for
the news by KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco.
The program director for the station happened to see the piece and
approached her to host "Straight Talk 'N Teens," a new magazine format teen
show covering everything from entertainment to topical issues such as teen
pregnancy and drug abuse. This "after-school job" became SuChin's
introduction to the entertainment world. Her first big interview for the
show was Ice-T. Juggling school and television became a mainstay in SuChin's
life.

While attending the University of California at Berkeley as a political
science major, SuChin was once again discovered, when the producer of a PBS
Science show called "Newton's Apple" saw a tape of her and called her in for
an audition. She landed the job and became the youngest of five hosts of the
show, and spent her college years lugging her textbooks on shoots to
locations as remote as Tahiti.

Following graduation, she was approached by ZDTV (now called G4 TV), a
24-hour national cable network devoted to technology and the internet, for
which she was hired as a reporter for a show called "Internet Tonight."
After a year with ZDTV, she was recruited to be a correspondent on another
teen show called "First Cut" on KRON the NBC affiliate in San Francisco. It
had become increasingly clear that television was her calling, and looking
to move on from San Francisco, SuChin sent in a tape to the start-up cable
network Oxygen. After a year-long audition process, she was hired as a host
for "Trackers" and moved to New York. From there, MTV spotted her and came
calling.

Born in Korea, SuChin and her family moved to the Bay Area when she was five
years old. She graduated with a degree in political science from the
University of California at Berkeley.

Fall Symposium: November 14, 2007
Presidential Elections:The Road to the White House 2008

Sponsored By:
The Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government

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Nov 14, 2007 Keynote Lecture given by David Broder.

Directions to Fairwinds Alumni Center

Past Event: September 6, 2007
9:00 A.M.-12:45 P.M.
The Adam Smith Seminar
American Public Policy and Free Enterprise
Located at the Fairwinds Alumni Center at the University of Central Florida