FORA.tv Speaker - Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell is NBC's chief foreign affairs correspondent and the host of MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports." She currently covers foreign policy, intelligence, and national security issues. Mitchell's extensive reports include a 2010 interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a series of exclusive interviews, over the years, with Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Mitchell's travels for NBC have included exclusive reports from North Korea, Afghanistan, the Middle East, Bosnia, Kosovo, Pakistan, and Haiti. Mitchell covered the entire 2008 presidential campaign for "Today," "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," "Hardball," "Morning Joe," and "Meet the Press." She is the author of Talking Back, a memoir about her experiences covering five presidents, Congress, and foreign policy. Mitchell received the prestigious Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism and the Leonard Zeidenberg Award for her contribution to the protection of First Amendment Freedoms. She also won the 2010 National Press Foundation Excellence in Broadcast Journalism Award.