Rachel Maddow Bio, Wiki
Rachel Maddow is an American journalist who serves as a television news program host and liberal political commentator. She hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a nightly television show on MSNBC, and serves as the cable network’s special event co-anchor alongside Brian Williams.
Rachel Maddow Age
Maddow was born on April 1, 1973 in Castro Valley, California, U.S. She is 48 years old as of 2021.
Rachel Maddow Height
Her actual height has yet to be revealed, but it will be updated as soon as her body measurements are released.
Rachel Maddow Family
Maddow was born in Castro Valley, California, to Robert B. Maddow, 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 and Elaine, a school program administrator. David, her older brother, is her only sibling. Her paternal grandfather came from a family of Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews who immigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire (the original surname was “Medvedof”). Her paternal grandmother was of Protestant (Dutch) ancestry. Her English and Irish ancestors can be traced down to her Newfoundland and Labrador mother.
Rachel Maddow Partner – Wife
Maddow who is openly gay lives with her spouse, artist Susan Mikula, in Manhattan, New York, and West Cummington, Massachusetts. When Maddow was working on her doctoral dissertation in 1999, they met.
Education
She attended Stanford University after graduating from Castro Valley High School. She was outed as a lesbian as a freshman by the college newspaper, which published an interview with her before she could tell her parents.
In 1994, she graduated from Stanford with a bachelor’s degree in public policy. She received the John Gardner Fellowship at graduation. She received a Rhodes Scholarship and began postgraduate studies at Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1995. In the same year, she was also offered a Marshall Scholarship, which she declined in favor of the Rhodes. As a result, she became the first openly gay Rhodes Scholar. She received her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in politics from the University of Oxford in 2001. Her supervisor was Lucia Zedner, and her thesis was titled HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons.
Rachel Maddow Career
She secured her first position by winning a challenge held by radio broadcast WRNX to track down a co-have for the show ‘The Dave in the Morning Show’. Then, at that point, she was picked to have ‘Enormous Breakfast’ on WRSI for quite a long time. She facilitated ‘Unfiltered’, a morning show on Air America Radio alongside Lizz Winstead and Chuck D. The show was dropped in 2005.Her radio program ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ debuted in April 2005—only a long time after ‘Unfiltered’ was dropped. The show turned out to be exceptionally famous and by March 2008 it had acquired an hour and had David Bender taking care of the bring in area.
Rachel Maddow MSNBC
She tregular panelist on the MSNBC show ‘The Situation with Tucker Carlson’in 2005 and furthermore showed up regularly on CNN’s ‘Paula Zahn Now’. She marked an agreement with MSNBC as a political expert in 2008 and furthermore filled in as a customary specialist on the show ‘Race for the White House’ with David Gregory. She additionally showed up regularly on ‘Commencement with Keith Olbermann. She used to be the substitute host for ‘Commencement with Keith Olbermann’ in April 2008. Her work was excessively valued to the point that she was made to have the program again one month from now and furthermore a few different scenes over the course of the year while Olbermann was holiday.
Olbermann had turned into a dear companion of Maddow’s and he asked her to have her own show. ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ debuted in August 2008 in MSNBC’s 9 p.m. space. The show was a success from the earliest starting point and turned into the most elevated appraised show on the channel.
The show got positive surveys and the viewership for the program multiplied after a month of its debuting. With this show, Maddow turned into the primary straightforwardly gay or lesbian to have an early evening news program in the U.S.
Rachel Maddow Salary
Her annual salary is estimated to range between $ 100,000 – $ 500,000.
Rachel Maddow Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million – $5 Million which she has earned through her career as a journalist.
