Rebecca Roberts | |
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![]() Rebecca Roberts moderating a discussion at NHGRI in 2014. | |
Born | Rebecca Boggs Roberts 1970 (age 53–54) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Education | Princeton University (BA) |
Occupation | Journalist |
Known for | Radio personality |
Spouse | Daniel Jay Hartman (m. 1997) |
Parent(s) | Steven V. Roberts Cokie Roberts |
Relatives | Hale Boggs (grandfather) Lindy Boggs (grandmother) Barbara Boggs Sigmund (aunt) Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. (uncle) |
Rebecca Boggs Roberts (born 1970) is the Curator of Programming at Planet Word, and was formerly an American journalist. She was one of the hosts of POTUS '08 on XM Radio, which offered live daily coverage of the 2008 presidential election. She served as a substitute host for Morning Edition , Talk of the Nation , and Weekend Edition Sunday on National Public Radio. [2]
Born to reporters Cokie (née Boggs) and Steve Roberts, Roberts earned a B.A. in political science from Princeton University. [1]
Roberts began with Shorr & Associates, a political media firm in Philadelphia. She was technology reporter for The World, a radio program produced by the BBC and Public Radio International, for four years. She hosted Your Call, a local call-in program, on KALW in San Francisco and moved to Washington, D.C., to host The Intersection , a news talk show, on WETA from 2006 to 2007. [2] For NPR, she has reported on such diverse topics as the US immigration debate, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, transgenic goats, amateur astronomers, Bikram yoga, and Icelandic geysers. [2]
She served as Program Director of the Congressional Cemetery. [3]
Roberts' books include:
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