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<p><a href="/biography/rachel-maddow">Rachel Anne Maddow</a> is a liberal political <a href="/biography/rachel-maddow">commentator</a> and host of an American television news program. She co-anchors MSNBC's special events with <a href="/biography/brain-willams">Brian Williams</a> and hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a nightly television show on the cable network. From 2005 to 2010, her syndicated discussion radio show of the same name aired on Air America Radio. Maddow has won numerous Emmy Awards for her broadcasting work, and her book, Blowout, won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2021.</p>

<p>Rachel Maddow was born on April 1, 1973, in Castro Valley, California. Her father, Robert B. Maddow, was a former United States Air Force captain who resigned his service the year before her birth and went on to work for the East Bay Municipal Utility District as a lawyer. Her mother, Elaine, worked as a school program supervisor. <a href="/biography/david-zurawik">David</a>, her older <a href="/biography/david-zurawik">brother</a>, is her only <a href="/biography/david-zurawik">sibling</a>. Her paternal grandfather was from a family of Eastern European <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews">Ashkenazi Jews</a> who immigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire (the original surname was "Medvedof"). Her paternal grandmother was of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism">Protestant</a> (Dutch) ancestry, while her English and Irish ancestors can be traced back to her Newfoundland and Labrador mother. According to her mother, Maddow's family is "very, very Catholic," and she grew up in a "quite conservative" environment.</p>

<p>Maddow was a competitive <a href="/biography/rachel-maddow">athlete</a> who competed in volleyball, basketball, and swimming in high school. She has described herself as "a cross between the jock and the antisocial girl" in high school, referencing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hughes_(filmmaker)">John Hughes</a> films. After graduating from Castro Valley High School, she attended Stanford University. As a freshman, she was outed as a lesbian by the college newspaper, which published an interview before informing her parents.</p>

<p>In 1994, she graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor's Degree in Public Policy. Upon graduation, she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship. In 1995, she was offered both a Rhodes Scholarship and a Marshall Scholarship, and she chose the former. As a result, she became the first openly lesbian Rhodes Scholar. She went on to earn a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Politics from the University of Oxford in 2001, under the supervision of <a href="/biography/lucia-zedner">Lucia Zedner</a>. Her thesis was titled "HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons".</p>

<h2>Relationships/ Marriage</h2>

<p>Maddow came out about her homosexuality when she was a 17-year-old <a href="/biography/rachel-maddow">freshman</a> at Stanford University. She met her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Mikula">partner</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Mikula">artist</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Mikula">Susan Mikula</a>, when Maddow worked odd jobs in Massachusetts while finishing her dissertation. Their first date was at a National Rifle Association event. In 1999, the pair moved into an old farmhouse in rural Massachusetts. In recent years, Maddow has divided her time between her homes in New York and Massachusetts, where she has continued to reside with her partner <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Mikula">Susan</a> and the couple's Labrador retriever.</p>

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<h2>Career</h2>

<p>In 1999, Rachel got her first radio job working at WRNX 100.9 FM in Holyoke, Massachusetts. She hosted various programs during her radio career, including a two-year stint on Big Breakfast at WRSI before it ended in 2004. She went on to work with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D">Chuck D</a> at Air America before quitting on January 21, 2010. In 2006, Rachel managed to parlay her radio career into cable television when she became a regular host on the MSNBC show The Situation with Tucker Carlson. She was also a recurring <a href="/biography/rachel-maddow">guest</a> on CNN's Paula Zahn Now show during the 2006 midterm elections, and she started to gain momentum as a political commentator from her appearances on TV. In January 2008, Maddow signed an exclusive contract with MSNBC as the broadcasting station's political analyst. In September of 2008, Rachel saw the launch of her nightly cable television program called The Rachel Maddow Show. The show was a huge hit and marked MSNBC's most successful show debut in history. Since its inception, the show has boosted MSNBC's ratings and received several awards, including the Television Critics Association award for "Outstanding Achievement in News and Television" and a 2010 GLAAD Award. Maddow herself has also been honored numerous times for her excellence in journalism.</p>

<p>The Washington Post named her "Breakout Star of 2008," and in 2010 she won a Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award for her documentary The Assassination of Dr. Tiller, which also earned her a 2011 Gracie Award. A popular UK publication, The Guardian, called Rachel the star of America's cable news. She has received many honors and awards, including a 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding News Discussion and the Gracie Award. Maddow wrote Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power in 2012, which topped The New York Times Best Sellers list for hardcover nonfiction upon its release. In December 2013, The Washington Post announced that Maddow would write a monthly opinion column for the paper, contributing one article per month for six months.</p>

<h2>Net worth</h2>

<p>Rachel Maddow, the esteemed news anchor of MSNBC, boasts a net worth of $35 million. She is renowned for her role as the host of "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC.</p>

<h2>Public Image</h2>

<p>A 2011 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollywood_Reporter">Hollywood Reporter</a> profile of Maddow praised her for her ability to deliver the news "with agenda, but not hysteria." A Newsweek profile said, "At her best, Maddow debates ideological opponents with civility and persistence... but for all her eloquence, she can get so wound up ripping <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)">Republicans</a> that she sounds like another smug cable partisan." The Baltimore Sun critic <a href="/biography/david-zurawik">David Zurawik</a> accused Maddow of acting like "a lockstep party member." The editors of The New Republic similarly criticized her, naming her among the "most overrated thinkers" of 2011; they called her program "a textbook example of the intellectual limitations of a perfectly settled perspective." On awarding the Interfaith Alliance's Faith and Freedom Award named for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite">Walter Cronkite</a>, Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy remarked that "Rachel's passionate coverage of the intersection of religion and politics exhibits a strong personal intellect coupled with constitutional sensitivity to the proper boundaries between religion and government."</p>

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