Kristen Welker is a famous American television journalist and a correspondent best known for being the White House Correspondent based in Washington for NBC News. She also worked for ABC affiliates WLNE-TV.
Kristen Welker Born In 1976
Kristen Welker was born on July 1, 1976, and is currently 45 years old. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States of America to Julie Welker and Harvey Welker. Her father is an engineer while her mother is a real estate agent. Kristen is of American nationality and belongs to the African-American ethnic background.
Regarding her educational qualification, Kristen, in 1994, graduated from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia and completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1998 from Harvard College and majored in History from Harvard University.
NBC Reporter Kristen Welker: Career Highlights
During the late 1990s, she joined ABC affiliates WLNE-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, and worked there for several years. Later on, she joined KRCR-TV in Redding/Chico, California, and then she joined NBC affiliate WCAU in 2005.
She worked there as a reporter and weekend anchor for about half a decade, and then she joined NBC News as its correspondent. At the end of 2011, she was named the NBC White House Correspondent based in Washington and currently works there.
She has worked along with President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and First Lady Michelle Obama traveling around the world since that time on. 'Recently, in January 2020, she was introduced as the co-anchor of NBC's Weekend Today alongside Peter Alexander.
How Much Is The Net Worth Of Kristen Welker?
She has been earning a lucrative amount of salary from her journalism career. As of 2022, Kristen Welker is estimated to have a net worth is $3 million according to a verified source.
The same site cited that the average salary of a journalist is believed to be $101 thousand, ranging from $81 thousand to $118 thousand per year.
Who is Kristen Welker's husband?
While talking about Kristen Welker's current relationship status, she is a married woman. Before marrying her current husband, she was reported to be dating Andrew Mulroney, a senior software developer at Kimmel Centre.
Later, in 2014, she started dating John Hughes, followed by their engagement on June 24, 2016.
Nearly after a year of engagement, the couple got married on March 4, 2017, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a lavish wedding ceremony.