As a student at GW, Dana Bash, BA ’93, took a job at the bottom of the professional totem pole. Now, a little over a decade later, she spends most of her days at the White House.

Bash began her career at CNN during her senior year at GW sorting news reports in the feed room. After graduation she landed a job in the tape library and volunteered in the newsroom. It was not long before Bash was producing news programs including Evans and Novak, Late Edition, and On the Story. In 2002, a position opened for a White House correspondent and Bash has been reporting from the lawn of the White House ever since.

Bash recognizes the difficulty of working in a profession that not too long ago was a man’s domain. “I am really lucky because I had people who came before me who really changed things, like Judy Woodruff,” Bash says. “She was one of the first women in broadcasting and is not only a mentor, but someone who paved the way so it was not just the old boys’ club.”

Bash has many memorable stories from her life as a reporter. She was at the Capitol on September 11th when the police thought a plane was going to hit the building. And she remembers getting a call on her cell phone at 3 a.m., while driving through a snowstorm, learning that Saddam Hussein had been captured.

As a White House correspondent, Bash has earned a reputation for being honest and fair. She attributes her journalistic values to her mentors at CNN and to her GW education.