CBS Foreign Policy Reporter Is Named Convent of the Sacred Heart Commencement Speaker

CBS foreign policy reporter and Convent of the Sacred Heart graduate Margaret Brennan has been named commencement speaker at Convent of the Sacred Heart’s 166th graduation exercises on June 5.

Graduation ceremonies for the 82 girls in the class of 2015 will take place at the school beginning at 2 p.m. with a baccalaureate Mass, followed by the awarding of diplomas and Brennan’s address.

Brennan, who grew up in Danbury, graduated from Sacred Heart in 1998, and developed an early interest in reporting on the news. She was a Foreign Affairs and Middle East Studies double major at the University of Virginia, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree with a minor in Arabic language. As a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, she studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan.

Since joining CBS News in July 2012, Brennan’s foreign policy reporting has primarily assigned to the State Department, traveling with Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton to cover national security and diplomatic issues. Before joining CBS News, Brennan spent a decade covering global financial markets. She anchored Bloomberg Television’s “InBusiness with Margaret Brennan,” a weekday program broadcast live from the New York Stock Exchange that covered top political, economic and financial news.

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Contributed photo: Margaret Brennan.