Nancy Gibbs

==Early life and education==
Gibbs was born in [[New York City]], the daughter of Janet (née Stang), who worked at [[Friends Seminary]], and Howard Glenn Gibbs, who was the Associate National Director for the [[Boys & Girls Clubs of America|Boys Clubs of America]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/21/style/weddings-nancy-reid-gibbs-and-waits-may-3d.html | work=The New York Times | title=WEDDINGS; Nancy Reid Gibbs and Waits May 3d | date=June 21, 1992}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/25/classified/paid-notice-deaths-gibbs-howard-g.html | work=The New York Times | title=Paid Notice: Deaths GIBBS, HOWARD G | date=April 25, 2002}}</ref> She attended  [[Yale University]] ([[Berkeley College (Yale University)|Berkeley College]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=d&d=YDN19820226-01.1.12&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
|accessdate=2012-06-21 |page=12
|date=February 26, 1982
|newspaper=[[Yale Daily News]]
|title=Gibbs wins Marshall Scholarship}}</ref> and graduated in 1982, ''[[summa cum laude]]'', with honors in history. She then studied at [[New College, Oxford|New College]], [[Oxford University|Oxford]] as a [[Marshall Scholar]] (M.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics) graduating in 1984.

A third-generation Chautauquan, Gibbs began her journalism career in 1976, writing for ''The Chautauquan Daily'', [[Chautauqua Institution|Chautauqua Institution's]] newsletter, during the summers until 1980.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}