Robin Young
Robin Young brings more than 25 years of broadcast experience to her role as host of Here & Now. She is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has also reported for NBC, CBS and ABC television and for several years was substitute host and correspondent for "The Today Show."
Robin has received several Emmy Awards for her television work, as well as cable's Ace award, the Religious Public Relations Council's Wilbur Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Gold Award. She has also received radio's regional Edward R. Murrow award.
As an independent documentary filmmaker, she produced and directed the opening film for Marion Wright Edelman's White House Conference on Children and followed the rise of then unknown filmmaker John Singleton in the film "Straight From the Hood."
Her documentary "The Los Altos Story," made in association with the Rotary Club of Los Altos, California, won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and is now the backbone of a worldwide HIV/AIDS awareness initiative.
She has had an eclectic career in broadcasting, serving as second director on Boston Bruins and Red Sox telecasts, was one of the first hosts on the groundbreaking television show "Evening Magazine," and she's pretty sure she's the only Peabody Award-winner who has also hosted a cooking game show! (Yes, that was Robin on the Food Channel's "Ready Set Cook!" When they cast their vegetables and vote? That was Robin's idea!)
Robin was born on New York’s Long Island, attended Ithaca College in upstate New York and has lived and worked in Manhattan, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, but Boston is her hub.
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Althea Gibson was a pioneer in women's sports, known for breaking the color barrier in tennis and the Ladies Professional Golf Association, as well as her victories at the U.S. Open, French Open and Wimbledon in the late 1950s. -
Her childhood, the girls who bullied her and the politics of the last several decades have influenced her career and writing. -
Senate Democrats are vowing to block funding to ICE unless Republicans agree to put in place some restraints. If a deal isn't reached by the end of the week, there will be a partial government shutdown. -
The film, based on Helen Macdonald's memoir of the same name, is about channeling grief into the training of a goshawk. -
Author Jeff Kinney and his wife Julie opened a bookstore called An Unlikely Story. Now, a beer garden is scheduled to open this spring, with other projects planned. -
Active duty soldiers have been put on standby in Alaska for possible deployment to the city, and the National Guard has been activated, but not yet deployed. -
Shaheen says the administration's plan is vague and that there are "contradictions around what we're really trying to accomplish there." -
Five years ago, supporters of President Trump tried to stop the certification of the 2020 election. -
U.S. Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick collapsed after being assaulted while defending the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021. Later, he was among the small number of Americans to lie in honor in the Rotunda, where he had fought. -
The film dives deep into issues of faith and religion. Both Rian and Nathan Johnson were brought up as evangelical Christians.
