Hoda Kotb is a television host and television news anchor who was born on August 9, 1964 in Norman, Oklahoma. Kotb enrolled in Virginia Tech and graduated with a B.A degree in broadcast journalism in 1986. Her professional career includes being a news assistant for CBS News, a weekend anchor for WINK-TV, a host for the series Your Total Health, corresponding for NBC’s Dateline, and co-hosting with Kathie Lee Gifford on the Today Show. She also became a breast cancer awareness advocate after being struck by the disease and surviving it. She published a bestselling book titled Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee in 2010.