Amna Nawaz: Chautauqua Institution Lecture Series
Route 394, Chautauqua, NY 14722
Opening Week Six is multi award-winning journalist, co-host and co-managing editor of “PBS News Hour,” Amna Nawaz. Curating a week on “American Storytellers,” she will highlight some of the most memorable people she has met throughout her career — weaving together their inspiring individual stories into a collective narrative of America at her best.
Nawaz has earned Emmy, Peabody and Cronkite awards for her work in journalism. In addition to anchoring PBS News’ flagship national news broadcast, Nawaz co-hosts the podcast “Settle In,” featuring thought leaders from all walks of life. She has also hosted a primetime arts show and documentaries on everything from America’s childcare crisis to global plastic pollution to life after incarceration.
Nawaz’s reporting ranges from politics and foreign affairs, to immigration and education, to culture and sports. She has anchored the show from the U.S. Southern border, Israel after the Oct. 7 attacks and Kyiv, Ukraine, during its war with Russia. Nawaz has interviewed presidents and heads of state, White House officials and lawmakers, professional athletes and musicians, and citizens around the world in the communities they call home.
Prior to joining PBS, Nawaz was anchor and correspondent at ABC News, anchoring breaking news coverage and leading the network’s livestream coverage of the 2016 presidential election. She also hosted the “Uncomfortable” podcast and reported a documentary on the Texas county with the highest rate of support for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Before ABC, Nawaz was a foreign correspondent and Islamabad Bureau Chief for NBC News, where she regularly reported on the war in Afghanistan and the broader region.