Kristen Welker

Kirsten Welker is a well known American journalist who is currently working for the NBC News. In addition to that, she serves as White House Correspondent based in Washington.

Kirsten Welker has now reached at the age of 39 and she came into this world on 1st July of the year 1976. She is the native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Her parents are Harvey and Julie Welker. Her mother is a real estate agent and is black whereas her father is an engineer and is white.

Kirsten went to get her education from the Germantown Friends School located in Philadelphia and from there, she got graduated in 1994. After that, she got enrolled at Harvard College and earned herself a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1998. She got graduated from the Harvard with honor with a major in History.

Welker has worked at ABC affiliate WLNE-TV located in Providence, Rhode Island as well as KRCR-TV in Redding/Chico, California. Later, she joined the NBC in 2005 at the affiliate WCAU. There, she was a reporter as well as a weekend anchor. After that, in 2010, she again joined NBC News as a correspondent based at NBC News West Coast Headquarters located in Burbank, California.

The following year in December, Welker became a NBC White Correspondent. She has traveled around the world along with President Barack Obama, Vice President Biden and the First Lady Michelle Obama.

As she was born in the month of July, her Zodiac sign is Cancer. She stands tall at height of five feet and some inches. She is of mixed ethnicity. Despite being so popular, Welker has still managed to keep her personal life very secret.


There are no any details found to date regarding her husband and dating life. She tied the knot with John Hughes in 2017. However, her net worth would be total of $2.5 million.

Kristen Welker has been active in this field for years and it is sure that during these long period, she must have won multiple fans and followers in her career. Despite, it is very much important for all the celebrities to create a virtual image as well as goodwill nowadays days by getting interacted with their fans on various social media.

She has more than thousands of the followers on her Facebook and Twitter account. Welker is also active on the Instagram page.