Berkley Center

Rebecca Sinderbrand (C'99) is the president and CEO of the National Press Foundation and professor of the practice in the Georgetown Journalism program. Sinderbrand was formerly director of the Journalism Program and joined Georgetown University following more than two decades in political and presidential journalism spanning coverage of six presidential campaigns and five administrations, first as a reporter and then as an editor at news organizations including the Washington Post, Politico, and CNN, most recently as senior Washington editor for NBC News. She has also explored the evolving relationship between the press and the presidency as a Block Visiting Lecturer on Journalism and Politics at Yale University, the elements of political reporting as an adjunct professor in Georgetown University’s graduate journalism program, the shifting dynamics of campaign journalism as a fellow at Georgetown’s Institute of Politics and Public Service, and Syria and Lebanon as a Johns Hopkins University-SAIS International Reporting Project Fellow. Sinderbrand graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in government and received an M.A. in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University.