Lisa Desjardins Bio, PBS News, Husband, Age, Baby, Net Worth

Lisa Desjardins Bio

Lisa Desjardins is an American journalist, correspondent, and political reporter currently working as a news correspondent on PBS NewsHour. She previously worked at CNN as a correspondent and Capitol Hill reporter.

Lisa Desjardins Age

Wolf was born on January 29, 1972, in Hawaii, United States. She is 50 years old as of 2022. Desjardins celebrates her birthday on January 29 every year. Also, Read; Amna Nawaz

Lisa Desjardins Height

Lisa’s information about the exact height she stands at is not publicly available. However, her height is estimated to be 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m). She has not revealed her weight or body measurements but we shall update soon.

Lisa Desjardins Education | College

Lisa is an alumna of the College of William & Mary and Herzen University. He holds a bachelor’s of Arts degree in Economics from the former University and learned Russian at Herzen University. Desjardins also holds a Master of Science degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Lisa Desjardins Health | Ears

Lisa’s health has been a concern for most of her views with rumors claiming she has an ailment in her ears. However, she has never confirmed these rumors and her ears are perfectly fine.

Lisa Desjardins Family

Lisa is the daughter of a Naval officer. Details about her mother and father are few, however, her father worked as a college instructor later in her life. She was raised alongside three siblings in Annandale, moreover, she has seven half-siblings.

Lisa Desjardins Husband | Adoption | Baby

Lisa is currently married to her husband Jason Desjardins. The couples got married in 2007 and are parents to one child. They welcomed their baby son in 2016 and are expected to adopt another child. The family currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Lisa’s husband has maintained a low profile and very little is known about him.

Desjardins also owns a cat named Rocky that she has shared on her Twitter bio.

Lisa Desjardins Salary

Lisa’s profession as a journalist, correspondent, and political reporter earns an estimated salary of $120k per year. Her exact details about the amount of salary she earns are currently not available.

Lisa Desjardins Net Worth

Desjardins as an American journalist, correspondent, and political reporter has a massive wealth and her wealth is estimated to be ranging from $2 million.

Lisa Desjardins CNN/ PBS NewsHour

Lisa began her journalism career in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where she worked between 1998 and 1999. She was fired from WBTW, however, she did not share the reasons for her termination. She subsequently worked as a freelance reporter for The Sun News and for Reuters. Desjardins joined WIS in 1999 where she worked as a political reporter.

Among her notable works at WIS are when she covered the 2000 Republican presidential primaries among other top political stories. She also served as a reporter for Associated Press based in the Washington, D.C. bureau until April 2003. In Washington, she covered all the compromises in the Confederate flag debate, the Iraq War, and the 2004 presidential election.

Lisa joined CNN in 2005 from Associated Press and worked as a senior correspondent and Capitol Hill reporter. Additionally, she served as CNN Radio’s Congressional correspondent and CNN.com correspondent until 2014. While at CNN, she has reported on 2010 Haiti earthquake which earned her a Sigma Delta Chi Award, the 2008 presidential primaries which also won CNN the Peabody Award, among others.

She joined PBS NewsHour in 2014 as a political correspondent, however, she was promoted to serve as a Political Director in July 2015. Moreover, Desjardins authors for the PBS NewsHour website.