Gwen Ifill to Speak at Georgetown College Commencement - Georgetown College

Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of PBS’s “Washington Week” and senior correspondent for “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” will speak during the Georgetown College commencement exercises at 3 p.m. on May 16 on Healy Lawn. The best-selling author of “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” (Doubleday, 2009) also moderated the vice presidential debates during the 2004  and 2008 elections. Ifill has covered six presidential campaigns during her career. During the 2008 campaign, she brought “Washington Week” to live audiences around the country as part of a 10-city tour. The native New Yorker has received honors for her work by the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center, Ebony Magazine and Boston’s Ford Hall Forum.