About Our Speakers
Kadia Goba
Kadia Goba covers Congress, Kamala Harris and the 2024 presidential race at Semafor. She previously worked for BuzzFeed News covering national politics with a focus on the Republican Party. Before that she covered congressional Democrats for Axios. Goba hails from Brooklyn, New York where she covered local politics before moving to Washington D.C.
Jackson Proskow
Jackson Proskow brings his lifelong passion for news and current affairs to Global National as Washington Bureau Chief.
His reporting career has taken him across Canada, the United States and around the world. He has covered several American presidential elections, countless hurricanes, mass shootings, and other major news events. He reported from earthquake-devastated Turkey in 2023, and from Nepal in 2015, as well as covering the 2011 Royal Wedding in London. His reporting has been profiled in other media outlets including CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC News and Esquire magazine.
Prior to joining Global National in 2014, Jackson was on the front lines of Toronto’s biggest news stories. Covering the City Hall beat, he asked Mayor Rob Ford the tough question that led to his confession of having used crack cocaine, sparking an international media frenzy.
Jackson entered the broadcast industry while still in high school, reporting for Shaw TV Calgary. In 2004, he graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelors degree in Communication Studies and later earned a diploma in Broadcast Journalism, with Honours, from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT).
After graduating, Jackson joined Global Lethbridge as a reporter and weekend anchor. He then made the jump to Ontario in 2005, moving to CHCH-TV in Hamilton as a reporter and videographer, later joining the Global Toronto team in 2006.
Jackson’s work has been honoured with several major awards, including the RTDNA Edward R. Murrow award for outstanding investigative journalism for the series Gardiner Expressway, Trouble Overhead. The series also earned Jackson and the Global News team the RTDNA Dan McArthur Award and Digital Media Award.
Jackson lives in Washington, D.C., and loves to travel, run, and explore Washington’s restaurant scene.
Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi is an award winning journalist, host of “Velshi” and Chief Correspondent for MSNBC, and a weekly economics contributor to NPR’s “Here And Now.” He has covered multiple U.S. Midterm and Presidential elections and significant news stories around the globe, including extensive reporting from Israel during the war with Israel and Hamas, Ukraine and across Central and Eastern Europe during the Russian invasion, the Syrian refugee crisis from Turkey and Jordan, and the Iran Nuclear Deal in Tehran. He hosts the “Velshi Banned Book Club” on MSNBC, and the “Velshi Banned Book Club” podcast. Velshi is known for his immersive on-the-ground reporting and his interactive discussions with small groups, which form part of his ongoing series, Velshi Across America. He previously worked as an anchor and correspondent for Al Jazeera America and CNN. He has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards, and is the recipient of two National Headliner Awards and a Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award.
About Our Moderator
Angela Murphy
Angela Murphy, the Globe’s Foreign Editor, took on this role about six months after Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States. Before that she was Toronto editor during the tumultuous years of Rob Ford’s mayoralty and led the Globe’s long-term project on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. She heads a Foreign Desk team of eight reporters, working out of Canada and five hubs: London, Rome, Johannesburg, Hong Kong and Washington.
