Richard Lui Biography
Richard Lui is an American journalist and MSNBC and NBC News anchor. Lui is currently a breaking news anchor for NBC and MSNBC, broadcasting from 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City’s Midtown Manhattan. He was previously a co-host of Early Today and an anchor of MSNBC’s daytime coverage. He previously worked for CNN Worldwide.
How old is Richard Lui? – Age
He is 51 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1972 in California, United States.
Richard Lui Family – Education
Lui’s real last name is Wong because his grandfather, an undocumented immigrant, filed false paper son documents. Lui is the Presbyterian minister’s son. In an op-ed, he stated that he grew up on welfare and nearly dropped out of high school.
Richard Lui Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1 Million.
Is Richard Lui married – Is Richard Lui gay
Lui is not married and is not in a relationship.
Richard Lui MSNBC
Lui began working for MSNBC in 2010. For several years, Lui hosted NBC News’ Early Today. He is currently an MSNBC breaking news anchor. He works at NBC’s headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Lui has previously covered sports for the NBC News and MSNBC morning shows. He also worked as a news anchor for The Weather Channel’s Wake Up With Al with Al Roker.
He has anchoring breaking coverage of events such as the Scottish independence referendum, the 2013 government shutdown, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, NATO’s attack on Libya, and the Arab Spring and Egypt’s revolution. Lui’s on-the-ground reporting has included coverage of the Ferguson riots, Hurricane Sandy, and the 2012 U.S. Presidential election.
His election coverage has included everything from the implications of the Tea Party movement to presidential election night exit poll data. Lui reported on a phenomenon involving high-volume brothels in the United States where women are forced to have sex 100 times a day in an NBC News investigation. Lui is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association, where she was named Member of the Year in 2013.
Richard Lui Enough About Me – Book
In his book Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness, he discusses how one of our time’s big ideas is closer than we thought. Small acts of selflessness are not a compromise. We can do something bigger than ourselves step by step, choice by choice.
Richard Lui Political Views
Lui’s interest in politics began in the 1970s, when he debated California’s contentious Proposition 13 on school buses. That interest led to a position as campaign manager for San Francisco College Board incumbent Alan Wong at 19:campaign. Lui returned to college after the election and planned to write about policy and state affairs, subscribing to The Washington Post when it had to be mailed to the West Coast.
Lui hosted the APIAVote Presidential Debate, the APA Presidential Inaugural Ball, and an APA Congressional Caucus forum at the Capitol during the 2012 election cycle. He also led training sessions for elected and appointed officials through the Asian Pacific American Institute on Congressional Studies. Lui also contributes political commentary to publications such as The Seattle Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Politico, and The Huffington Post.
Richard Lui Charity work
Lui began volunteering in the community as a YMCA counselor in high school in the 1980s. He taught computer skills to addicted mothers at the American Indian Family Healing Center and worked as a campaign manager for a citywide position overseeing City College of San Francisco.
Lui works as an ambassador for Plan International USA, identifying and advising on ways to talk about the role male adults and children play in gender inequality and female victim blaming, as well as assisting in the development of organizational growth strategies. He has traveled to Central America, South America, Asia, and Oceania for research and to assess global trends for Plan International USA.
Polaris Project, a global anti-human trafficking organization, has worked with Lui. For over a decade, he has reported and consulted on human trafficking stories, and he has spoken on domestic and global trends at high schools, universities, and conferences around the world. In 2012, the US Department of Justice asked Lui to speak about his work on human trafficking at its annual meeting of attorneys and immigration officers in Atlanta.
Lui has spoken at the Aspen Institute’s annual C-SPAN broadcast symposium on the “State of Race in America” for several years. He also led Aspen Institute conversations on foreign affairs in US journalism at the State Department.
Lui is a member of the United States State Department’s Speakers Program, and he has given keynote speeches in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.He is a UN Foundation Fellow who has hosted programs for the United Nations Association of New York alongside former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. He has delivered commencement addresses at UC Berkeley and City College of San Francisco, as well as events for Harvard University, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
Lui volunteered for Habitat for Humanity in Ghana, the Golan Heights, and Haiti with former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter in the affordable and homeless housing space. Lui served on the boards of Crossroads Homeless Services and the PRI affordable housing development company.