Amna Nawaz

Journalist

Birthday September 18, 1979

Birth Sign Virgo

Birthplace Virginia, U.S.

Age 44 years old

Nationality United States

#27973 Most Popular

0

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

1979

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

Her father, Shuja Nawaz (brother of former Pakistani Army chief Asif Nawaz Janjua), had been a journalist in Pakistan.

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

2001

In 2001, she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in politics, philosophy, and economics, where she co-captained the women's varsity field hockey team.

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

Nawaz's career plan was to become a lawyer but after a fellowship at ABC News, she shifted to journalism.

She initially worked for Nightline.

2003

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

2008

At NBC's investigative unit, she was a producer of Mortgage Crisis Investigations, which was nominated for the 2008 Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting.

2009

Nawaz received an International Reporting Project fellowship in 2009.

2010

In 2010, she shared a News & Documentary Emmy Award for the NBC News special Inside the Obama White House.

Later she was correspondent and bureau chief at NBC's Islamabad bureau.

2015

Nawaz joined ABC News in 2015.

2016

She anchored U.S. election and national political coverage in 2016 and 2017.

Nawaz also hosted the ABC podcast series Uncomfortable.

2018

Before joining PBS in April 2018, Nawaz was an anchor and correspondent at ABC News and NBC News.

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

She joined PBS in April 2018.

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

2019

In December 2019, 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, Nawaz became the PBS NewsHour's Chief Correspondent.

Nawaz and Geoff Bennett have been co-anchors of the PBS NewsHour since January 2023, when they replaced Judy Woodruff.

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