Full Name Kristen Welker Nationality American | Role Television personality Name Kristen Welker | |
 | ||
Parents Julie Welker, Harvey Welker Nominations News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form Similar People Tamron Hall, Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd, Kelly O'Donnell, Richard Engel Profiles | ||
Kristen Welker: "I have a dream that..."
Kristen Welker (born July 1, 1976) is an American television journalist working for NBC News. She serves as a White House correspondent based in Washington.
Contents
- Kristen Welker I have a dream that
- Msnbc reporter kristen welker doesn t know she s live intensely fixes hair
- Early life and education
- Career
- References
Msnbc reporter kristen welker doesn t know she s live intensely fixes hair
Early life and education
Welker is the daughter of Harvey and Julie Welker. Her father, Harvey, is an engineer, and her mother, Julie, is a real estate agent. Harvey is white and Julie is black. She graduated from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia in 1994 and Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1998. At Harvard, she graduated with honors, majoring in History. Welker married John Hughes on March 4, 2017, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Career
Welker has worked at ABC affiliates WLNE-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, and KRCR-TV in Redding/Chico, California, and joined NBC in 2005 at affiliate WCAU in Philadelphia, where she was a reporter and weekend anchor. She then joined NBC News in 2010 as a correspondent based at the NBC News West Coast Headquarters in Burbank, California. She became an NBC White House correspondent in December 2011.
