Joy-Ann Reid

Despite adverse situations and life experiences in her childhood, Joy-Ann Reid always continued to reach for her dreams. An orphan at the young age of 17, she moved back to the East Coast from Colorado and enrolled in Harvard University.

After obtaining a degree in visual art and documentation , she began working as an intern for a southern Florida TV station. After a number of varyied roles in TV and radio, she joined MSNBC in 2014 and began hosting and anchoring her own show.