Marcia Biggs is a freelance journalist, reporting on international conflict and humanitarian crises. She contributes regularly to The PBS NewsHour, reporting most recently on the crisis in Haiti, a series of reports which garnered her a George Polk Award for Foreign Television Reporting. With over a decade in the Middle East, her work has highlighted the targeting of doctors in the Syrian civil war, the use of children in armed conflict in Iraq and Syria, as well as various stages of the battle for Mosul and the plight of young Yazidi girls who have escaped ISIS captivity.  In 2018, she became one of the few television journalists to travel to Yemen, producing a four-part series for PBS.  A pivot to Latin America then took her to Honduras, ground zero of the Central American migration crisis, and Venezuela, where she went undercover to report on the country’s healthcare disaster. Her work has won numerous other awards, including a George Foster Peabody Award, Gracie Allen Award, and three Emmy nominations. Before her work with the NewsHour, Biggs produced reports for Al Jazeera English, Fox News Channel and CNN, as well as long form reporting for ABC News. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she completed her Bachelor's degree in History at Vanderbilt University and her Master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the American University of Beirut.