Rachel Maddow Biography
Rachel Maddow is an American media personality, television news program host and liberal political commentator. Maddow hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a weekly television show on MSNBC, and serves as the cable network’s special event co-anchor.
Her syndicated talk radio program of the same name aired on Air America Radio from 2005 to 2010. Maddow has received multiple Emmy Awards for her broadcasting work and in 2021 received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for her book Blowout (2019).
Rachel Maddow Age
Rachel Maddow was born on 1st April, 1973, Castro Valley, California, U.S.
Rachel Maddow Height
Rachel stand at a height of 5 feet and 8 inches tall.
Rachel Maddow Education
Maddow holds a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford University and a doctorate in political science from the University of Oxford and is the first openly lesbian anchor to host a major prime-time news program in the United States.
Rachel Maddow Nationality
Maddow is an American nationality.
Rachel Maddow Ethnicity
She English and Irish ancestry. Her paternal grandfather was from a family of Jews (the original family surname being “Medvedof”), who arrived in the United States from the Russian Empire. Her paternal grandmother was of Dutch descent. Maddow’s Canadian mother, originally from Newfoundland and Labrador.
Rachel Maddow Parents
Her father, Robert B. Maddow, is a former United States Air Force captain who resigned his commission the year before her birth and then worked as a lawyer for the East Bay Municipal Utility District. Her mother, Elaine, was a school program administrator.
Rachel Maddow Siblings
She has one older brother, David.
Rachel Maddow Partner
Her partner is Susan Mikula. Susan Mikula was born March 7, 1958 is an American artist and photographer. After years working in the art industry and serving on an art jury, Mikula had her first solo photography exhibition in 1998. She uses older technology to produce her photographs, including pinhole cameras and Polaroid cameras.
Mikula spent several years in the art industry, including a stint on an art jury. In 1998, she landed her first solo exhibition. Her published landscape photography collections have been displayed in both solo and group exhibitions in New York City, Miami, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Mikula exhibited “large-scale digital Duraflex prints” at the New York State House in 2007. In 2008, she opened her first show in New York. Mikula had an exhibition in 2009 at the TJ Walton Gallery in Provincetown with Rachel Maddow and Suzanne Westenhoefer attending.
In 2010, Mikula had her first photography show, American Device Recent Photographs, in San Francisco.
A year later, Mikula released a three part industrial landscape series titled American Bond. These American vistas spanned images of America from Texas to California to Massachusetts. Her 2013 series, u.X, were inspired by the Lascaux cave paintings.
In 2015, Mikula released a series of psychologically enigmatic pigment prints titled Photo Book. Mikula’s more Pittsfield focused photograph galleries were also on display at the Ferrin Gallery.
Since 2017, Mikula has been a part of the Art in Embassies program for United States Consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, doing site specific works for the organization. Some of Mikula’s works were purchased by the United States Embassy Art in Embassies (Nuevo Laredo Mexico) for their Permanent Collections.
Rachel Maddow Children
Rachel does not have any children.
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Maddow became a regular panelist on the MSNBC show Tucker, hosted by Tucker Carlson in 2005. During and after the November 2006 election, she was a guest on CNN’s Paula Zahn Now; she was also a correspondent for The Advocate Newsmagazine, an LGBT-oriented short-form newsmagazine for Logo deriving from news items published by The Advocate.
In January 2008, Maddow became an MSNBC political analyst and was a regular panelist on MSNBC’s Race for the White House with David Gregory and MSNBC’s election coverage as well as a frequent contributor on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
Rachel Maddow Radio
Maddow’s first job as a radio host was in 1999 at WRNX (100.9 FM) in Holyoke, Massachusetts, then home to “The Dave in the Morning Show”. She entered and won a contest the station held to find a new second lead for the show’s principal host, Dave Brinnel. After the WRNX show, she hosted Big Breakfast on WRSI in Northampton, Massachusetts, for two years, leaving in 2004 to join the new Air America.
There she hosted Unfiltered along with Chuck D (of the hip hop group Public Enemy) and Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show) until its cancellation in March 2005.
Two weeks after the cancellation of Unfiltered in April 2005, Maddow’s weekday two-hour radio program, The Rachel Maddow Show, began airing; in March 2008 it gained a third hour, broadcasting from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. EST, with David Bender filling in the third hour for the call-in section, when Maddow was on TV assignment.
In 2008, the show’s length returned to two hours when Maddow began a nightly MSNBC television program. In 2009, after renewing her contract with Air America, Maddow returned to the 5:00 a.m. hour-long slot.
Rachel Maddow Podcast
Maddow launched the podcast Bag Man in 2018, produced with MSNBC and focusing on the 1973 political scandal surrounding Vice President Spiro Agnew.[62] A film adaptation of the podcast was announced to be in production in 2022, with Ben Stiller attached to direct and Lorne Michaels to produce, with Maddow set to be an executive producer.
In October 2022, Maddow and MSNBC launched Ultra, a podcast chronicling U.S. right-wing extremism during the 1940s and World War II, including the 1944 sedition trial.
Rachel Maddow Writing
Maddow wrote Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power (2012) about the role of the military in postwar American politics. Upon its release, Drift reached the first position of The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction.
On March 2, 2018, The New York Times published Maddow’s first crossword puzzle, in collaboration with Joe DiPietro. On the eve of its publication, she said: “This is kind of it, like there will never be a baby, but there’s this freaking crossword puzzle, and I am very, very excited about it.”
Maddow’s second book Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth was published in October 2019. In March 2021, the audiobook version of Blowout, recorded by Maddow, won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.
Her third book, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House, written with Michael Yarvitz, was published in December 2020.
Rachel Maddow Depression
Maddow has dealt with cyclical depression since puberty. In a 2012 interview, she stated, “It doesn’t take away from my joy or my work or my energy, but coping with depression is something that is part of the everyday way that I live and have lived for as long as I can remember.” She has explained why she decided to speak about it in interviews: “It was a hard call … Because it was nobody’s business.
But it had been helpful to me to learn about the people who were surviving, were leading good lives, even though they were dealing with depression. So I felt it was a bit of a responsibility to pay that back.”Maddow said, “There are three things I do to stay sane: I exercise, I sleep I’m a good sleeper and I fish.
Depression is a mental state of low mood and aversion to activity, which affects more than 280 million people of all ages (about 3.5% of the global population). Classified medically as a mental and behavioral disorder, the experience of depression affects a person’s thoughts, behavior, motivation, feelings, and sense of well-being.
The core symptom of depression is said to be anhedonia, which refers to loss of interest or a loss of feeling of pleasure in certain activities that usually bring joy to people. Depressed mood is a symptom of some mood disorders such as major depressive disorder and dysthymia; it is a normal temporary reaction to life events, such as the loss of a loved one; and it is also a symptom of some physical diseases and a side effect of some drugs and medical treatments.
It may feature sadness, difficulty in thinking and concentration and a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping. People experiencing depression may have feelings of dejection, hopelessness and suicidal thoughts. It can either be short term or long term
Rachel Maddow Cancer
Maddow had surgery to remove a cancerous skin growth from her neck in 2021
Rachel Maddow Salary
Rachel earns an estimated annual salary of USD 80,000.
Rachel Maddow Net Worth
Her net worth is estimated to be USD 500,000.
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