Alicia Menendez

Alicia Jacobsen Menendez is an American television commentator, host, and writer. She is the author of the book The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are (2019), and is an anchor for MS NOW. From 2020 to 2024, she was host of American Voices with Alicia Menendez on Saturdays and Sundays on MSNBC. She is also a contributing editor at Bustle and host of its Latina to Latina podcast. Formerly, she was a correspondent on the PBS show Amanpour & Company and the host of Come Here and Say That on Fusion. Prior to that she was a host and producer at HuffPost Live. She is the daughter of former United States Senator Bob Menendez. She currently co-hosts MS NOW's The Weeknight at 7 pm ET weekdays with Symone Sanders-Townsend and Michael Steele.