Sarah Palin

OAKLAND, Calif., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for PBS NewsHour will deliver the commencement address to the graduates of Holy Names University (HNU) on May 12, 2012.  Her journalism career includes assignments at the Boston Herald-American, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and NBC News, where she was a colleague of Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert.  The daughter of an impoverished minister, Ms. Ifill had a strong religious upbringing.  Her parents were both immigrants: her father from Panama and her mother from Barbados.  She is one of six children and grew up in New York. Ms. Ifill went to Simmons College in Boston where she majored in communications, and ...