Huma Abedin

Huma Abedin Soros is an author, speaker, producer and activist. She is currently an MSNOW contributor, a consulting producer for HiddenLight Productions and advisor to the Hillary Rodham Clinton Leadership Institute. She also serves as Vice Chair of the Know Your Value platform which includes the Forbes 30/50 Mentorship Summit in Abu Dhabi. She sits on the board of Vital Voices Global Partnership.

Huma began her three-decade career in public service as a White House intern in 1996. After four years in the White House as Special Assistant to the First Lady and Trip Director, she worked in the U.S. Senate as Senior Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton and then went on to be Traveling Chief of Staff for the Clinton 2008 presidential campaign. In 2009, she was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of State under President Obama, where she oversaw long-term strategic planning and operations for the Secretary of State. She then served as Vice Chair of Hillary for America in 2016, a historic campaign that resulted in the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party.

In addition to her long career in public service, Huma’s passion for storytelling led her to write her New York Times bestselling memoir, Both/And, in 2021. The memoir has been optioned by Freida Pinto for a scripted series currently in development at Netflix. She also contributed a chapter to the book Listening in the Dark: Women Listening to Their Intuition, edited by Amber Tamblyn and published in 2022. As a consulting producer for HiddenLight Productions, Huma helps bring untold stories from diverse voices to a global audience.

Huma’s role as a weekly MSNOW contributor and recent co-host of Morning Mika has allowed her to draw on her expertise in government, politics and women’s leadership to provide unique insights into current domestic and global developments. As Vice Chair of the annual Forbes 30/50 Summit, for five consecutive years, she has helped convene influential female voices across industries to share their experiences with rooms filled with icons from Forbes’ 50 Over 50 List and barrier-breakers from the 30 Under 30 List, providing an important framework for long-term mentoring and networking partnerships.

Through Huma’s work on the board of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an NGO that has invested in women leaders for 25 years, she continues to support women addressing the world’s greatest challenges. Huma’s public service led to her being named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and to her inclusion on TIME’s 40 Under 40 list. She has also served on the Host Committee of the Met Gala, most recently in 2020, helping support and celebrate one of New York’s foremost cultural and historic institutions. In 2022, Huma received the Golden Heart Award for Outstanding Leadership from God’s Love We Deliver, an organization dedicated to fighting hunger and malnutrition. In 2023, she was awarded the Celebrating Women Award from the New York Women’s Foundation. In 2024, Huma also received the Pro-Choice Champion Award from Eleanor’s Legacy, an organization that recruits, trains, and supports pro-choice Democratic women to run for state and local office throughout New York.

Huma graduated from George Washington University with a B.A. in Journalism and Political Science. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Huma lives in New York with her husband Alex and son Jordan.