Recipient of the 2024 Samuel A. Halsey Jr. Award

Yamiche Alcindor is the Washington correspondent for NBC News, where she covers the Biden administration, the impact of federal policies on communities across the country, and issues at the intersection of race, culture and politics. She also covers the impact of federal abortion rights being revoked by the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice’s push for environmental justice in communities with failing water and sewage systems, and disinformation campaigns targeting American electoral systems.

She was previously the anchor of Washington Week on PBS as well as the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour, where she covered the administrations of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump as well as the coronavirus pandemic, immigration politics, and calls for policing reforms following the death of George Floyd. Alcindor also worked as a national political reporter for The New York Times and a national breaking news reporter for USA Today.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Peabody Award for coverage of the January 6th Capitol attack, the Radio Television Digital News Association's John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award, International Women's Media Foundation's Gwen Ifill Award and the White House Correspondents' Association's Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage. She is also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and was named their Journalist of the Year in 2020. 

Alcindor earned a master's degree in broadcast news and documentary filmmaking from New York University and a bachelor's degree in English, government and African American studies from Georgetown University. 

A native of Miami, Florida, Yamiche is a new mom to an adorable baby boy, married to a fellow journalist, and is the daughter of Haitian immigrants who met while attending Boston College.