NBC News Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor to Open 2024-25 Bucknell Forum Series Sept. 24

NBC News Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor will open the 2024-25 Bucknell Forum series on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts, where she will discuss this year's "World in Transition" theme. The event is free and open to the public, although tickets are required (see details below).

Alcindor is the first of four nationally renowned speakers participating in this year's Bucknell Forum — a speaker series that since 2007 has featured national leaders, scholars and commentators who have examined various issues from multidisciplinary and diverse viewpoints.

About Alcindor
Since early 2022, Alcindor has been a Washington correspondent for NBC News covering the Biden administration, the impact of federal policies on communities and issues at the intersection of race, culture and politics. She is also a former anchor and moderator of PBS' Washington Week, where she unraveled the steady stream of breaking news to help her listeners understand it all.

Prior to joining the NBC News team, she was public broadcasting's White House correspondent for the national news flagship PBS NewsHour. As an MSNBC contributor, Alcindor often appears on shows like Morning Joe, Meet the Press and Andrea Mitchell Reports. Earlier in her career, she was a national reporter for The New York Times, writing about politics and social issues, and a journalist with USA Today, writing about criminal justice and fast-breaking stories.

Alcindor's knack for following the story has taken her to places like Belgium for the 2018 North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting and to Helsinki, Finland, for President Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. She has also traveled to McAllen, Texas, to chronicle life on the U.S.-Mexico border and to gauge the impact of President Trump's family separation policy as well as to Jackson, Miss., to write about the impact of racial inequalities and poverty in America. In 2019, she served as a moderator for the sixth Democratic primary debate.

The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Alcindor has written extensively on the intersection of race and politics. She has covered the impact of President Trump's policies on the working class, immigration and breaking news coming out of Africa, the Middle East and Asia. She has also reported on the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, the legacy of President Obama, as well as how police killings affect communities and children.

As the recipient of the White House Correspondents' Association Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage and the 2020 National Association of Black Journalists Journalist of the Year Award, Alcindor has become a steady voice in journalism.

Event Information
All Bucknell Forum events are free and open to the public, although tickets are required. Current Bucknell students and employees may receive up to two free tickets at any campus box office location, or online, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. one day prior to the event. A valid Bucknell University ID is required to receive advance tickets. Use of multiple Bucknell IDs to pick up additional sets of tickets is prohibited.

Remaining tickets will be available for the general public at the Weis Center box office beginning at 6 p.m. on the day of the event. All individuals may receive up to two free tickets, depending on availability.

An ASL interpreter will be signing at the event for the deaf community. Attendees who need this service should contact sebright@bucknell.edu for seating arrangements.

Questions regarding this event may be directed to the Division of Marketing & Communications at 570-577-3260 or theforum@bucknell.edu.

Remaining Bucknell Forum Speakers
All remaining speakers in this year's Bucknell Forum will appear at 7:30 p.m. in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts on these dates:

• Emmy Award-winning comedian, TV host and producer W. Kamau Bell on Tuesday, Oct. 22.
• Pioneering actor and civil rights leader George Takei on Tuesday, Jan. 28
• A fourth speaker will also be added to the lineup and announced at a later date.