PERSON: Chris Hayes

Host

Christopher Loffredo Hayes (/heɪz/; born February 28, 1979)[1][2][3] is an American political commentator, television news anchor, and author.[4] Hayes hosts All In with Chris Hayes, a weekday news and opinion television show on MSNBC. Hayes also hosts a weekly MSNBC podcast, Why Is This Happening?[5] Hayes formerly hosted a weekend MSNBC show, Up with Chris Hayes. He is an editor-at-large of The Nation magazine.[6]<br> <br> Early life<br> Hayes was born in the Norwood, Bronx,[2] one of three sons of Roger and Geri Hayes. His mother is of Italian descent and his father is of Irish Catholic ancestry.[7] His father moved to New York from Chicago while studying at a Jesuit seminary, and began community organizing in The Bronx.[8] Roger Hayes spent several years leading community organizing at the Community Service Society of New York and works as an assistant commissioner for the NYC Department of Health. Hayes’s mother was a school teacher and works for the NYC Department of Education.[8] Hayes was raised Catholic,[9] but stopped attending services in college[9] and does not consider himself to be religious.[10]<br> <br> He is a childhood friend and schoolmate of comedian Desus Nice.[11] Hayes attended New York City’s prestigious Hunter College High School;[12] his classmates included Immortal Technique[13] and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Hayes directed the latter in Miranda’s first musical.[14]<br> <br> Hayes attended Brown University majoring in philosophy and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2001. Speaking of “intellectual formation” at Brown with Ezra Klein, Hayes stated, “I was a philosophy major, but I was very much in this sort of analytic school. But the intellectual culture of the place I was with and the people I was with was very influenced by postmodern critique, by Foucault... particularly.”[15] At Brown Hayes met his future wife, Kate A. Shaw.<br> <br> [Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hayes]