JENNA HAGER

Jenna Bush Hager is a host of NBC’s TODAY with Hoda & Jenna and the founder of TODAY’s Read with Jenna book club. She is the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Sisters First, The Superpower Sisterhood, and Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life with her twin sister, as well as Our Great Big Backyard and Read All About It! with her mother, former First Lady Laura Bush. She is also the author of an essay collection, Everything Beautiful in Its Time.

She is the author of The New York Times bestseller 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.

Education and Advocacy

Hager remains involved with UNICEF and is currently the chair of its Next Generation initiative, which is dedicated to reducing childhood deaths around the world.

Hager holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin. She’s the coauthor with her mother, Laura Bush, of the children’s book Read All About It! Hager and Mrs. Bush also released a second children’s book, Our Great Big Backyard, which celebrates the Centennial of the National Park Service, and encourages children to go outside and explore America’s parks.

Hager is the daughter of former U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. In 2008, she married Henry Hager. On April 13, 2013, she gave birth to daughter Margaret Laura “Mila” Hager. Her second daughter, Poppy Louise Hager, was born August 13, 2015. Jenna and Henry welcomed a son, Henry Harold “Hal” Hager on August 2, 2019.