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Thanks for dropping by my website. I am a journalist based in New York City, and write the Weekend in New York column for The New York Times Travel section, which includes occasional videos. I have also done freelance work for Time Out New York, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Gourmet, O: The Oprah Magazine, Concierge.com, the Boston Globe, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, ARTnews and others. I am not, however, a web designer. (Can you tell?)
For more information, check my bio page; for examples of my work, the Clips page; for information on the class I teach at NYU, here. To see me on Brazilian television, click here. You can also join legions of foreign lottery officials and prescription drug hawkers by writing me at seth@sethkugel.com; I don't respond to them but I'll respond to you.
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BIO
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I grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, attended Yale University where I studied political science, specifically African government. After that, I joined the Teach For America program and worked as a third-grade bilingual teacher at P.S. 156 in the Bronx for three years.
I left teaching to study immigration and education policy (along with a stiff dose of economics and statistics) at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where I received a Master of Public Policy degree, and then went to work for an immigrant services project of the City of New York called Citizenship NYC. After two years directing the program's Bronx office, I worked for two more years for the city's Administration for Children's Services in the Division of Child Protection.
In 1999, I began freelancing for The New York Times City section, and in 2001 I quit my day job and began covering the Bronx and northern Manhattan full time for them. I did that for four years, while writing for other sections of the Times like Metro, Travel, Styles and Escapes, and many other publications, including Time Out New York, O the Oprah Magazine, Viva New York, Every Day With Rachael Ray, ARTnews, Playboy, and others.
I now work primarily for the Travel section of the Times, where I concoct the Weekend in New York column once a week and often write about Latin America. My book, Nueva York: The Complete Guide to Latino Life in the Five Boroughs, co-authored with Carolina Gonzalez, hit bookstores on Sept. 19, 2006. I also teach a journalism course on interviewing techniques at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
I speak Spanish and Portuguese, and have ten years of French study buried deep in the back of my brain, though it would take a neurosurgeon to extract it. Quelle dommage. Hmm, not sure what that means.
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