Amy Robach

Amy Robach Speaker Biography

Emmy-Nominated News Anchor, Bestselling Author, and Breast Cancer Awareness Advocate

Amy Robach is the co-anchor of ABC News’ GMA3: What You Need To Know, a daytime program bringing viewers the latest news, information, and human interest stories each day. She also reports for Good Morning America, co-anchors ABC News’ 20/20, and reports across ABC News platforms.

ABC News

Since joining ABC News, Robach has interviewed countless newsmakers. She’s had exclusive, headline-making interviews with Hunter Biden who became a focal point of a political firestorm during the 2020 presidential election; New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on his COVID-19 response; live exclusive GMA interview with the Turpin sisters who opened up about their escape from the house of horror; Tonya Harding for a two-hour Truth and Lies primetime special; Gretchen Carlson, in her first television interview on sexual harassment in the workplace; and Monica Lewinsky, in her first network interview in over a decade.

Robach has covered major national and global news events such as the mass shootings at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, FL; Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, CT. She has also reported on the 2020 election campaigns of Joe Biden and President Donald Trump and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN, and its aftermath. Her international reporting includes coverage of terrorist attacks in Manchester, UK, and Brussels, Belgium. She also traveled to Antarctica with the first ever live report from the notorious Drake Passage and traveled to the mainland to report on the front lines of climate change. Robach continued her environmental reporting as the first television journalist to ever report live from the Galapagos Islands. She also went to Iceland with the world’s most elite ice climbers and to Tanzania on the poaching epidemic and its impact across the globe. In 2014, she traveled to Nigeria to interview Malala Yousufzai, the seventeen-year-old who was campaigning to free hundreds of captive school girls. She also reported live from South Africa just days after the shooting of Oscar Pistorius’ girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Olympics and Election

Robach has anchored ABC News’ Olympic coverage of the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, Japan; the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea; the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. She also contributed to network-wide coverage on election night 2016 from Trump Headquarters and the Washington Mall in Washington, DC for the 2017 presidential inauguration.

Book

Robach wrote a New York Times bestseller titled Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held on to Hope, and Found Joy in My Darkest Hour about her unexpected journey with breast cancer after being diagnosed following an on-air mammogram on GMA. She also co-authored a children’s book, Better Together. After her recovery, Robach has devoted much of her free time to fitness and adventure. She is a three-time marathoner and counting. She ran the Chicago Marathon, Berlin Marathon, and New York City Marathon. She has summitted Mt Kosciuszko, Mt Baker, Mt Fuji, Grand Paradiso, Monterosa, and, for her five-year cancerversary, Mt Kilimanjaro.

Early Career

Before joining ABC News, Robach worked at NBC News from 2003 to 2012. Robach was the co-anchor of Saturday Today and an NBC News national correspondent. During that time, she also filled in as Weekday Today co-anchor and newsreader, and NBC Nightly News Anchor. Prior to that, Robach was an anchor for MSNBC from 2003-2007. She also worked as a correspondent for WTTG TV in Washington, DC, and WCBD TV in Charleston, SC.