MAURA BARRETT is an NBC News NOW Correspondent, reporting across all platforms for NBC News and MSNBC. She was a campaign embedded reporter for the 2020 election, while covering the Covid-19 pandemic and the civil unrest following George Floyd’s death in both DC and Portland, OR. Maura just closed out a summer with NBC’s DC bureau, covering the White House & President Joe Biden. Her passion is storytelling around how policy impacts people, most recently covering abortion rights, environmental policy & climate adaptations, along with the politicization of LGBTQ+ issues – highlighting stories like Florida’s backlash against Disney for speaking out against the “Don’t Say Gay” law and Republican efforts to lift conversion therapy bans in various states,bringing the stories to a broad national audience.