Ms. Kotb is a four-time Emmy nominee who began her journalism career in 1986. For the past ten years she has been with NBC in correspondent roles for Dateline, Your Total Health and currently is the Anchor of the “Today” Program. She has covered a wide variety of international stories including the one-year anniversary of hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq, the War on Terror in Afghanistan, and the Southeast Asia Tsunami of 2004. Hoda was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007. Her brave battle and journey to recovery were recorded by the Today Show cameras and shared with the world after announcing she was cancer-free. Now an advocate for breast cancer awareness, she hopes to provide inspiration through her positive story. In 2009 and 2012 Hoda was the keynote speaker for the Breast Cancer Gala Dinner. She became a patron for the Breast Cancer Foundation in 2010. Now the mother of two young children she is living proof, if proof were needed that there is life after breast cancer.
Hoda Kotb
