Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of former president George and Laura Bush, is the new special correspondent to NBC‘s Today show and no tint of politics here people.
“Hager, a 27-year-old teacher in Baltimore, will contribute stories about once a month on issues like education to television’s top-rated morning news show”, said executive producer, Jim Bell, through THR.com.
Jenna Hager was a teacher at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School for more than a year in 2006, some time in spent as an intern in UNICEF’s Educational Policy Department in Latin America, got back to teaching in Washington, D.C. and currently works as a reading coordinator at a school in Baltimore, Maryland. She said she has always wanted to be a teacher and a writer but the idea of getting into television when Bell contacted her got her interested.
“It wasn’t something I’d always dreamed to do,” she said. “But I think one of the most important things in life is to be open-minded and to be open-minded for change.”
Jenna is to keep her job as a reading coordinator while she contributes stories once a month to the top-rated network morning show where she might cover one of the things she loved most, education.
“I think she can handle it,” said Bell. “I think she knows something about pressure and being under some scrutiny. When she came here for a handful of appearances [to promote her books], she knocked it out of the park.”
Jenna authored two books, Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope and Read All About It!. If you’re wondering if she plans to cover her experience as the first daughter, then no, she won’t be talking about that.
“I don’t think it’s that interesting,” she said. “I’m pretty normal.”
Look forward to Jenna Hager’s debut on September as a special correspondent on Today.
