| Kathleen Matthews | |
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Kathleen Matthews |
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| Born | San Francisco, U.S. |
| Spouse | Chris Matthews |
Kathleen Matthews is the chief communications and public affairs officer for Marriott International, the leading global hotel company based in Bethesda, Maryland. She is responsible for the company’s external and internal communications, including global brand and corporate public relations, corporate social responsibility and community engagement, diversity initiatives and government affairs. She also co-chairs Marriott’s Executive Green Council.
Matthews is a 1975 graduate of Stanford University and was a 2004 Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has honorary degrees from the University of South Carolina and Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. Since 1980 she has been married to Chris Matthews, host of Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show. They live in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and have three children. Matthews is active in her community and industry, and has served on the boards of the U.S. Travel Association, Catholic Charities, the Black Student Fund, Suited for Change, Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Nantucket Film Festival and Nantucket Dreamland Theater.
For 25 years, she was a reporter and co-anchor of ABC 7 News (WJLA-TV) in Washington, D.C., co-host of Capital Sunday and the syndicated Working Woman show. During her television career she was awarded nine local Emmys, the Edward R. Murrow award, the George Foster Peabody award, the David Brinkley award, and the Gracie Allen award from the American Women in Radio and Television. She has been named Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian Magazine and A Women Who Means Business by the Washingtonian Business Journal. She has also been awarded the Catholic Charities Caritas Award and the Girl Scouts of the Nation’s Capital Officers’ Award.