Emmy-award winner Ann Curry is news anchor for NBC News’ “Today” and a regular contributor to Dateline NBC. She is the former daytime anchor for MSNBC, co-anchor of Dateline International on NBC Europe and substitute anchor for the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News. She has won her two Emmy awards for her live coverage – for the October 1987 earthquake in Los Angeles and for her report for the 1989 San Bernardino gas pipeline explosion. Curry is also a four-time winner of the Golden Mike award. She has received several Associated Press Certificates of Excellence and won an NAACP Award for Excellence in Reporting.

Ann Curry has been the news anchor for NBC News’ “Today” since March 1997 and is a contributing reporter for “Dateline NBC.” As a correspondent for “Dateline NBC,” Curry scored an exclusive interview with the parents of the Iowa septuplets in 1997. Curry traveled to the Balkans in April, 1999 to report on the humanitarian refugee crisis in Kosovo. Before coming to NBC, Curry had been a reporter for KCBS in Los Angeles since 1984. There, she earned an Emmy Award for her live coverage of the October 1987 Los Angeles earthquake and another for her coverage of the explosion of a gas pipeline in San Bernardino. From 1981 to 1984, Curry was a reporter and anchor for KGW, NBC affiliate in Portland, Oregon. She began her broadcasting career at Medford’s KTVL, where she served as a news reporter from 1978 to 1981. Ms. Curry speaks candidly about her climb as a journalist and the perseverance she used to get where she is today. She shares her experiences growing up the daughter of American and Japanese parents, and openly reveals her personal stories as a working mother.