Rachel Maddow Will Speak at Smith Jan. 23

Prominent MSNBC news anchor Rachel Maddow will offer reflections on the 2016 presidential election in a Presidential Colloquium to be held at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 23, in John M. Greene Hall. The event is open to the public at no charge, and no tickets are required.

Maddow is the popular host of MSNBC’s Emmy Award-winning The Rachel Maddow Show, which features Maddow’s take on the biggest stories of the day, political and otherwise, as well as in-depth analysis and lively debate with guests from all sides of the issues.

She also is the author of DRIFT: The Unmooring of American Military Power, which debuted at number one on the New York Times bestsellers list in March 2012.

Currently a resident of both Western Massachusetts and New York, Maddow began her radio career on WRNX in Holyoke, Mass., in 1999 when she won a contest to find a new sidekick for the host of a morning show. She went on to host Big Breakfast on WRSI in Northampton before leaving to join Air America. She has been with MSNBC since 2005, and has hosted her own show for the network since 2008.

Maddow earned her undergraduate degree in public policy from Stanford, then studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 2001, she received her D. Phil. degree in politics from Oxford; her thesis was on HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons.

More information about Maddow is available at http://www.rachelmaddow.com/.