Host, TODAY with Jenna & Friends; Bestselling Author
“A Conversation with Jenna Hager”

Jenna Bush Hager is the host of the fourth hour of NBC’s Today show, Today with Jenna & Friends.

A New York Times best-selling author, in her latest book, Everything Beautiful in Its Time, Jenna shares moving, funny stories about her beloved grandparents and the wisdom they passed on that has shaped her life. With genuine appeal and heart felt warmth, Hager brings to light stories of hope, humor and humanity. 

Jenna is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Sisters First, written with her sister Barbara Pierce Bush. This book takes readers on an extraordinary and deeply personal journey of what it is like to be born into a political dynasty. The sisters reveal never-before-told stories about their family and uncover the enduring sisterly bond that kept them sane through it all.

She also penned another New York Times best seller Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope, which she wrote after traveling to Latin America in 2006 as an intern with UNICEF. Ana’s Story is based on the life of a 17-year-old single mother with HIV, who struggles to shield her child from the life she had of abuse and neglect. Jenna remains involved with UNICEF and is currently the chair of its Next Generation initiative, which is dedicated to reducing childhood deaths around the world.

Like her mother, former First Lady Laura Bush, Jenna once taught public school. Together, they co -authored the children’s books Our Great Big Backyard and Read All About It!. Jenna is the author of additional children’s books, I Loved You First; Loves Comes First; and The Superpower of Sisterhood. 

Jenna holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the daughter of former U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. In 2008, she married Henry Hager. Jenna and Henry are the proud parents of their three children, Margaret Laura “Mila,” Poppy Louise Hager, and Henry Harold “Hal” Hager.