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Award-Winning Journalist Yamiche Alcindor Is A Member Of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Did you know that award-winning journalist Yamiche Alcindor is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.? Alcindor was initiated through the Omicron Pi chapter, the citywide Washington, D.C. chapter that serves Georgetown, Catholic, and Trinity Washington universities, while she was a student at Georgetown.
Alcindor is a Washington correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, where she covers politics and issues at the intersection of race, culture, and policy. Before joining NBC in 2022, she served as the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour and as the moderator of the network’s flagship public affairs program, Washington Week, a role she held until early 2023. Earlier in her career, she reported for The New York Times and USA Today.
Born on November 1, 1986, in Miami, Florida, to Haitian immigrant parents, Alcindor found her path into journalism early. As a teenager, she interned at the Westside Gazette, a local African-American newspaper, and the Miami Herald, getting her start in the newsrooms of her hometown.
She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in English and government, with a minor in African American studies, from Georgetown University in 2009, where she became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. She later completed a master’s degree in broadcast news and documentary filmmaking at New York University.
Alcindor built her reputation covering some of the defining stories of her generation, from the killing of Trayvon Martin and the unrest in Ferguson to the Trump and Biden White House. In December 2019, she co-moderated a Democratic presidential primary debate, and her work has been recognized with the National Association of Black Journalists’ Journalist of the Year honor and the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Aldo Beckman Award. In 2023, she returned to Georgetown to deliver the university’s commencement address.
From a Miami newsroom to the White House briefing room, Alcindor’s career carries the scholarship and service at the heart of Alpha Kappa Alpha.
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