May 17, 2024

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Kristen Welker NBC, Bio, Age, Husband, Children, Height, Net Worth and Salary

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Kristen Welker Biography

Kristen Welker is an American television journalist born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She currently anchors NBC News. Welker serves as a White House correspondent based in Washington, D.C., and a co-anchor of Weekend Today, the Saturday edition of Today, alongside Peter Alexander. Welker was a moderator in the second presidential debate with Donald Trump and Joe Biden on October 22, 2020. 

Kristen Welker Age

Welker was born on July 1, 1976, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States of America. She is 44 years old as of 2020. Welker celebrates her birthday on July 1st every year.

Kristen Welker Education

Welker studied at Germantown Friends School in Germantown in Philadelphia and graduated in 1994. She then graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor’s degree in American history in 1998. She also interned for Today in 1997. Welker is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. READ ALSO Marci Gonzalez

Kristen Welker Height

Welker’s information about the exact height she stands at is not publicly available. However, her height is estimated to be 5 feet 3 inches (1.6 m).

Kristen Welker Family

Welker was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of a native American father Harvey Welker (engineer) and an African-American mother, Julie Welker (a real estate agent). Welker’s father is white and her mother is African-American. However, there is no much information about her family members including her aunts, uncles, and siblings. Her details will be updated once confirmed in the public eye. Welker is an American by nationality and she belongs to mixed ethnicity.

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Kristen Welker Husband

Welker is married to her husband John Hughes who is a marketing executive with Merck. The couple married on March 4, 2017, where the wedding took place at the Hyatt at The Bellevue in the reporter’s hometown of Philadelphia.

However, their wedding was attended by their family members, relatives, and close friends. Together with her husband, they have not yet welcomed children. The family lives in the United States of America. Welker is not registered with any political party.

Kristen Welker NBC News

In 2005, Welker joined NBC at their owned-and-operated station in Philadelphia, WCAU, 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. In December 2011, she became an NBC White House correspondent.

Welker frequently represents MSNBC at daily White House press briefings and broadcasts live on the network for various programs. She regularly fills in on NBC Nightly News and Today. On January 10, 2020, NBC revealed that Welker will become the daily co-anchor of Weekend Today alongside Peter Alexander.

On January 11, 2020, she started as co-anchor on Weekend Today. At the Washington Women in Journalism Awards, she was awarded the prize for Outstanding Journalist in Broadcast Television in September 2020.

Welker started her media career in 1990 working with ABC affiliates WLNE-TV (2003–2005) in Providence, Rhode Island. Later, she worked with KRCR-TV in Redding/ Chico California from 2001 to 2003. In 2004 Welker moved to WLNE-ABC6 News.

Until the end of 2009, Welker served as an anchor for NBC.  Welker’s NBC news career began when she became a reporter at the West Coast Headquarters of NBC Universal News in Burbank, California in 2010.  Today Weker works at NBC News White House.

Kristen Welker Salary

Welker’s profession as a journalist, anchor, and reporter earns an estimated salary ranging from $81.680 to $118.036 per year. Her details about the amount of salary she earns are currently not available.

Kristen Welker Net Worth

Welker as an American journalist, anchor, and reporter has a massive wealth and her wealth is estimated to be ranging from $1 to $5 million.

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