Evette Ríos is an American bilingual lifestyle expert, writer, television host, designer and native New Yorker of Puerto Rican heritage. Ríos is currently the host of a hugely successful

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Live series called "Slice", a collaboration with The Little Things, a viral Facebook channel. She has received over 1 million views over her first four 15 minute episodes https://www.facebook.com/slicetvshow/ she also hosts '' Recipe Rehab'', which aired on CBS but currently airs on Z Living.http://www.zliving.com/shows/shows/cooking/recipe-rehab Most recently she hosted The Way Home for

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with Megan Colarossi. Prior to that she hosted '' DreamQuest with Evette Ríos'', which was produced with

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for the

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. She served as a guest co-host and field correspondent on ABC's ''

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'', where she reports on new food and lifestyle trends around the country. She was a designer on ''

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'' on TLC, ''

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'' on HGTV Farrell, Jodi Mailander. ''Just Call Evette Rios 'designer on the spot' ''. The Miami Herald, August 27, 2006 p.8H. and The G Word on

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.Dalin, Shera. ''My Favorite Things: Evette Rios''. Latina, October 2008 p.112. Evette is a contributing design expert and “buddy” on the

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winning ''

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'' and is a regular contributor, in fluent Spanish, to Al Despertar, Tu Desayuno Alegre and

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all on

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. She has also made guest appearances on ''

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'' on NBC, ''

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'' and the CW11 Morning Show. She was recently invited by

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to be one of her 7 “buddies” on the newly rebranded

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Food Channel. She is a contributor to ''

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.Szabo, Julia. ''Home Fur Holiday'. The New York Post, December 14, 2008 p.G3. She also serves as food editor for the Latina lifestyle website Mamiverse.com. and has headlining blogs on Xojane.com and

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. In July 2012 she became the national spokesperson for

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International. The December/January 2012 issue of ''

'' named Ríos one of the 50 reasons to love being Latina and the "Mobile Martha Stewart".Abrams, Lisa. ''Reasons to Love Being Latina. Latina, December/January 2012 p.132. Evette's work on ''The Chew'' made her the only Latina on a national daytime talk show.

Early life and education

Evette Ríos is the only child of Nilsa and Francisco Ríos both hailing from

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. She has two older half-brothers Michael and Derrick. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. As a child she and her parents would work together to rehab several homes that they bought and sold in their Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. She was selected to become a member of

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in 5th grade which enabled her to attend private schools instead of the area public schools. She was a member of the teen theater group The Sullivan Street Players founded and directed by Gail Noppe-Brandon along with

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, co-writer of Avenue Q and Co-Creator of Book of Mormon, artist

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. She first attended The

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in the

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area of Manhattan and then went on to

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. After high school she attended

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.Staff. ''Q&A: Evette Rios''. Boutique Design, May/June 2007 p.37. There she travelled abroad nearly two years, during her travels she developed a deep love of design, and how culture informs the way we relate to our space. At

she double majored in Biology and Theater. After college she worked for a stint at the American Museum of Natural History, drawing and documenting mollusks found off the coast of New Caledonia with Dr. Paula Mikkelsen. After graduation she attended the Career Discovery Program at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and did coursework at

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and

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. She worked at top New York interior design and architecture firms,

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, Scott Snyder Inc. and

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before getting her start in television.

Non-profit works

Evette Ríos is National Spokesperson for

and is on the board of

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, the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS a registered 501(c)(3) that grants funding to some of the country's top providers of services to those living with HIV and AIDS. Other DIFFA board members include

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and

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. She is Co-Chair of the PR Committee at the

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, one of the oldest Arts club in the Country and a registered 501(c)(3). and served as Co-Chair at the 2013 and 2012 Design on a Dime event alongside

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, Genevieve Gorder and Sabrina Soto which benefits Housing Works. She has worked for several years with the National Education Association's annual volunteer program Outreach to Teach. There she works to rehab and redesign teacher's lounges, in just one day, for schools around the country. She also has developed recipes for Fidelis Care, a NY State health insurance company to help parents create healthy meals for their children.

Personal life

Evette lives in New York City with her husband, Stephen, her sons, Yagüez "Yago" and Guarionex "Rex", her cat Miss Kitty and her semi-hairless dog Baloo.Cowan, Adri. ''Evette Rios Creates Pet Treasures out of Trash''. Animal Fair, October 2008 p.30.

References

External links

Evetterios.com

Recipe Rehab on Z Living

Evette Ríos on The Way Home

Evette Ríos on the CBS Dream Team

Evette Ríos on TheChew.com
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