Rachel Maddow

Rachel Maddow, born in 1973 in Castro Valley, California, is an American television news host and political commentator. She hosts The Rachel Maddow Show on the cable network MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, where she also serves as special event co-anchor, and an earlier syndicated radio program of the same name aired on Air America Radio from 2005 to 2010. She holds a bachelor's degree in public policy from Stanford University and a doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar, and she is described as the first openly lesbian anchor to host a major prime-time news program in the United States. Her broadcasting has earned multiple Emmy Awards, and in 2021 she won a Grammy Award for the audiobook recording of her book Blowout. Her work spans cable television, talk radio and long-form podcasts and audiobooks.