Raz is a senior lecturer in journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches journalism fundamentals, ethics, international journalism and social justice journalism. He is also currently a columnist for The Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass., writing about immigration and mass incarceration. He has taught workshops and credit-bearing courses in Hampshire County Jail in Western Massachusetts and has developed an introductory journalism course specifically for the prison classroom. He holds a Ph.D. and a master's in communication from UMass Amherst, and a B.A. in journalism from the American University in Bulgaria.