Morningside College’s 2015 Waitt Lecture will feature Chuck Todd, NBC News political director and host of “Meet the Press.” The lecture at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 in Eppley Auditorium, 3625 Garretson Ave., is free and open to the public. Todd’s lecture will offer commentary and analysis of the presidential race leading up to the 2016 Iowa Caucuses and the 2016 presidential election.

Morningside College’s 2015 Waitt Lecture will feature Chuck Todd, NBC News political director and host of “Meet the Press.” The lecture at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 in Eppley Auditorium, 3625 Garretson Ave., is free and open to the public.

Todd’s lecture will offer commentary and analysis of the presidential race leading up to the 2016 Iowa Caucuses and the 2016 presidential election.

Prior to “Meet the Press,” Todd served as NBC News chief White House correspondent (2008–2014) as well as the host of MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown” (2010–2014). He has held the role of political director since 2007, leading all aspects of the news division’s political coverage and analysis. He is also the editor of “First Read,” NBC’s online guide to political news and trends in and around Washington, D.C.

Todd is author of the book “The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House” (2014) and co-author of the book “How Barack Obama Won” (2009).

Norman Waitt Jr., a 1986 Morningside graduate and a member of the Morningside College Board of Directors, established the Waitt Lecture Series at Morningside College in 1997. Recent lecturers have included neuroeconomist and author Paul Zack, director of Google Ideas Jared Cohen, presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter, economist/humorist Ben Stein, and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.