

Nawaz has interviewed international newsmakers - including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and Brazilian leader Eduardo Bolsonaro lawmakers and Trump administration officials – including then-ICE Director Mark Morgan’s first interview after President Trump announced mass raids across the U.S., Acting Secretary of DHS Kevin McAleenan, and former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in her first interview since leaving the Trump administration and influential voices including Reba McEntire, Gloria Estefan, and Dev Patel. She also regularly covers issues around detention, refugees and asylum, and migrant children in U.S. border, and later reunited with her family several weeks later.

She’s investigated the impact of the Trump Administration’s immigration policies, including following the journey of a single toddler as she left her home in Mexico, was separated from her family at the U.S. Her immigration reporting has taken her to multiple border communities in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico. She is also the founder and former managing editor of NBC’s Asian America platform, built to elevate the voices of America’s fastest-growing population.Īt the NewsHour, Nawaz has reported politics, foreign affairs, education, climate change, culture and sports.

Before that, she served as a foreign correspondent at NBC News, reporting from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey, and the broader region. Prior to joining the NewsHour, Nawaz was an anchor and correspondent at ABC News, anchoring breaking news coverage and leading the network’s digital coverage of the 2016 presidential election.
