Priscilla Thompson

Priscilla Thompson is an award-winning NBC News correspondent based in Houston, TX covering breaking news, politics, and inequity for the network. During the 2020 election cycle Priscilla was a campaign embedded reporter. When racial and political tensions broke out in South Bend, Indiana, Priscilla was dispatched to report on both the news and the impact for then presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg. Priscilla broke several stories on the small-town mayor’s record with respect to policing, his tax returns and his time as a consultant. When the country, were upended by the Coronavirus and demands for social justice, Priscilla was there, ably pivoting to cover the life and death of George Floyd from his hometown of Houston and providing an exclusive look inside an overrun rural hospital along the US-Mexico border ravaged by COVID19. Priscilla earned a Bachelor of Journalism in her home state at the University of Texas, in 2012. She completed her Master of Science degree, with honors, in 2016 at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.