Cokie Roberts will speak about great American woman leaders in an appearance at 8:45 a.m. Friday, May 1, in the Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart gym.

Her talk is part of the school’s Women as Global Leaders speaker series.

Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, providing analysis for all network news programming. From 1996-2002 she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program This Week. Roberts also serves as Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio.

In her more than 40 years in broadcasting, she has won countless awards, including three Emmys. She is in the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and American Women in Radio and Television recognizes her as one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting.

She is a 1960 graduate of Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md.