WASHINGTON, D.C., January 4, 2018 — MSNBC will feature incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in “The Speaker: An MSNBC Town Hall” moderated by MSNBC’s Joy Reid tonight (Friday, January 4) starting at 10 p.m. at Pelosi’s alma mater, Trinity Washington University, the nation’s first Roman Catholic liberal arts college for women.
Incoming Speaker Pelosi will share her legislative agenda, examine the race within the Democratic Party for the presidential nomination, discuss her thoughts on the Trump administration and more,” MSNBC noted in a press release.
The town hall will also feature questions from audience members. It will be Speaker Pelosi’s first major television event after being sworn in as Speaker of the House on Thursday, January 3.
Joy Reid is a MSNBC Political Analyst and host of AM JOY, which airs weekends from 10 a.m. to 12 noon on MSNBC. She has been described as “one of the most intelligent and analytical political pundits on television.”
Trinity Washington University (historically Trinity College) was founded in 1897 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as the nation’s first Catholic liberal arts college for women.
According its website, “In addition to Speaker Pelosi, well known graduates include Kathleen Sebelius, Class of 1970, who was Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama Administration and also elected twice as the governor of Kansas; Maggie Williams, Class of 1977, who was chief of staff to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and assistant to President Bill Clinton; Kellyanne Conway, Class of 1989, White House Counselor for the Trump Administration; Susan Flood Burk, Class of 1976, Ambassador for Nuclear Non-Proliferation during the Obama Administration; Rosemary M. Collyer, Class of 1968, presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; and many other distinguished public leaders.”
“Trinity today enrolls 2,000 students in undergraduate and graduate programs; more than half of Trinity’s students today are residents of the District of Columbia and the student body is 95% African American and Latina,” the website notes.
After graduating from the Institute of Notre Dame, a Catholic all-girls high school in Baltimore, Speaker Pelosi enrolled in Trinity College, from where she graduated in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science.
