Board Member
Award-winning journalist Erica Hill joined the Americares board in 2020. She currently serves as a CNN anchor and national correspondent, contributing to CNN, CNN International and CNN Max.
Throughout her wide-ranging career, Ms. Hill has led coverage of major domestic and international news stories from both the field and the studio, including U.S. presidential elections, a global pandemic, hurricanes and more. She was a lead correspondent for CNN’s pandemic coverage and co-hosted six CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall specials for families about COVID-19, one of which earned the network’s first-ever Daytime Emmy Award nomination.
Ms. Hill previously served as co-anchor of NBC’s Weekend TODAY and as an anchor and correspondent for the network, contributing to TODAY, NBC Nightly News and MSNBC. She also spent several years at CBS News as co-host of the network’s flagship morning broadcast.
Ms. Hill was part of the NBC News team that won a 2013 Peabody Award for the network’s cross-platform effort, “In Plain Sight: Poverty in America,” and in 2015, she was honored by the Alliance for Women in Media with the Gracie Award for Outstanding Correspondent.
In addition to her work with Americares, Ms. Hill also serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board for Boston University’s College of Communication.