11 Facts About Amna Nawaz

Amna Nawaz is an American broadcast journalist and a co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour alongside Geoff Bennett.

Amna Nawaz has received a number of awards, including an Emmy Award and a Society for Features Journalism award.

Amna Nawaz was born in Virginia on September 18,1979, to Pakistani parents.

Amna Nawaz attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Amna Nawaz holds a master's degree in comparative politics from the London School of Economics.

Amna Nawaz joined NBC in 2003, later joining Dateline NBC, where she worked on documentaries.

Amna Nawaz anchored US election and national political coverage in 2016 and 2017.

Amna Nawaz contributed as a correspondent on the PBS NewsHour's 2018 series The Plastic Problem, which received a Peabody Award in 2019.

In December 2019, Amna Nawaz became the first Asian American and first Muslim to moderate a United States presidential debate when she co-moderated a Democratic Party presidential debate.

In June 2021, Amna Nawaz became the PBS NewsHour's Chief Correspondent.

Amna Nawaz is a member of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington, District of Columbia-based think tank.