Gwen Ifill is moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, interviewing national and international newsmakers. She is also the best-selling author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. She has covered six Presidential campaigns and moderated vice presidential debates—in 2004 and 2008. Prior to joining PBS in 1999 she was chief congressional and political correspondent for NBC News, White House correspondent for The New York Times, and a political reporter for The Washington Post. Her work as a journalist has been honored by the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center, and Ebony magazine. A native of New York City, Gwen Ifill graduated from Simmons College in Boston and has received more than 20 honorary doctorates.