Co-Host of MSNBC’s "Morning Joe"

Mika Brzezinski is the co-host of MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" a show Time Magazine calls "revolutionary" and the New York Times ranked as the top news show of 2008. In January of 2009 Mika launched and became the Co-host of Citadel Media's syndicated radio show "The Joe Scarborough Show". She is also the author of All Things At Once, a candid and inspiring motivational book that will help women of all ages confront the unique professional and personal challenges they face in the key moments of their lives. 

In her new book, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting What You're Worth, Mika traces her unconventional career path, addressing the one topic she has had trouble communicating off-air: her worth in the workplace. Brzezinski, discussing her own professional experiences as well as the latest research on equal pay and negotiation tactics, also focuses on some of the country’s most successful career women—writer and director Nora Ephron, presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, comedian Susie Essman—for their words of wisdom.

Prior to joining MSNBC in January 2007, Brzezinski was an anchor of the "CBS Evening News Weekend Edition" and a CBS News correspondent who frequently contributed to "CBS Sunday Morning" and "60 Minutes." 

Brzezinski joined CBS News in 1997 as the anchor of "CBS News Up To The Minute," but took a short hiatus in 2000 to co-host MSNBC’s weekday afternoon program "Homepage." In September 2001, she returned to CBS to become their principal "Ground Zero" reporter for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Brzezinski began her journalism career in 1991 in Hartford, Connecticut, as a general assignment reporter at WTIC.  A year later she joined WFSB, also in Hartford, and quickly became the weekday morning anchor.

While she often calls her television career her “third child,” it is more than clear through her on-air persona that being a mom is Mika’s most important role in life. Having taken time away from her profession to be with her children a few years ago, Mika resurrected her career and has found success addressing the age-old issue of work-life balance.

A native of New York City, Brzezinski is the daughter of Foreign Policy Expert and Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.  She attended Williams College and received a degree in English.   Brzezinski lives in Manhattan with her husband and two Daughters.