Chris Hayes, the Emmy Award-winning host of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes and host of the hit MSNBC podcast, "Why Is This Happening?," is taking his podcast on the road and in front of live audiences across the country. Audience members will have the opportunity to join Hayes and a lineup of special guests across politics, media, entertainment and activism for live podcast tapings in some of the most iconic venues in Austin, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City.

Chris Hayes Background

Chris Hayes is the Emmy Award-winning host of "All In with Chris Hayes" at 8 p.m. ET Monday through Friday on MSNBC, as well as host of "Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast."

"Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast" launched in May 2018 and has more than 53 million downloads to date. New episodes are released weekly on Tuesdays wherever podcasts are available. Each week on the podcast, Chris Hayes asks the big questions that keep him up at night. How do we make sense of this unprecedented moment in world history? "Why is This Happening?" is presented by MSNBC and features interviews with political figures, journalists, writers, and academics.

Previously Hayes hosted the weekend program "Up w/ Chris Hayes," which premiered in 2011. Prior to joining MSNBC as an anchor, he had served as a frequent substitute host for "The Rachel Maddow Show" and "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." Hayes became an MSNBC contributor in 2010 and has been with "The Nation" since 2007.

Hayes is a former Fellow at Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. From 2008-2010, he was a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. From 2005 to 2006, he was a Schumann Center Writing Fellow at In These Times.

Since 2002, Hayes has written on a wide variety of political and social issues, from union organizing and economic democracy, to the intersection of politics and technology. His essays, articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Time, The Nation, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, The Guardian, and The Chicago Reader.

Hayes' first book, "Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy," which is about the crisis of authority in American life, was published in June 2012 and became a New York Times best-seller.

Hayes grew up in the Bronx and graduated from Brown University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. He lives in New York with his wife and three children.