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| Born | Alyona Leonidovna Minkovski (1986-01-30)30 January 1986 (age 39) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz |
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Alyona Leonidovna Minkovski (Russian:Алёна Леони́довна Минько́вская; born 30 January 1986) is aRussian American journalist, television host and commentator. In 2011, she was named on theForbes 30 under 30 media list.[1]
Minkovski is currently a producer ofAmerican Metamorphosis.[2]
Born inMoscow, Minkovski was raised inCalifornia. She is a daughter of theUnited Russia politician andfigure skaterIrina Rodnina and entrepreneur Leonid Minkovski, from aRussian Jewish family.[3] When she was 4, she immigrated to the United States with her family. She graduated with aB.Adegree inpolitics from theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz.[4]
In 2017, she profiled[5] opposition activists running for office in Moscow's municipal elections forThe Nation and wrote about anti-Trump Russian-Americans forFusion (nowSplinter).[6]
From 2009 to 2012, Minkovski hosted a political commentary program calledThe Alyona Show onRT America, which premiered when she was only 23 years old. The final edition of the program aired on 30 July 2012.[7]
From August 2012 to December 2016, Minkovski was a host forHuffPost Live,[8]The Huffington Post's online network. In 2016, she covered the US election, traveling the country for primaries, conventions, and Presidential debates. She also created the branded programsPolitical Junkies andFree Speech Zone, and produced and hosted documentary and short form videos. In August 2016, Minkovski produced a documentary forHuffPost about wrongful conviction titledStolen Time: Injustice in Brooklyn.[9] In 2014, she was nominated for aGLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism in coverage of bisexual activists holding a first ever forum at the White House.[10]
In October 2017, Minkovski joinedSalon as a host for the live interview showSalon Talks and as the producer and host of theSalon Now[11][failed verification] video series.
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