1. Alexandra Swe Wagner was born on November 27,1977 and is an American journalist and television host.
14 Facts About Alex Wagner
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Alex Wagner was the host of Alex Wagner Tonight on MSNBC and the author of FutureFace: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging.
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Alex Wagner was a contributor for CBS News and is a contributing editor at The Atlantic.
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Alex Wagner has been a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine since April 2016.
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Alex Wagner was born and raised in Washington, DC Her mother, Tin Swe Thant, is an immigrant from Yangon, Myanmar, who became a naturalized US citizen before attending Swarthmore College.
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Alex Wagner's father, Carl Wagner, from Lansing, Iowa, was of Luxembourgish, German and Irish descent and is a graduate of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.
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Alex Wagner was a prominent Democratic Party political consultant who co-chaired Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
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Alex Wagner attended Woodrow Wilson High School and graduated from Brown University in 1999, having studied art history and literature.
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Alex Wagner served as executive director of Not on Our Watch Project, an advocacy organization focused on mass atrocities and human rights violations.
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Alex Wagner then became the White House correspondent for Politics Daily, a political news magazine under AOL News.
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Alex Wagner moved to The Huffington Post after it was acquired by AOL.
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In November 2016, Alex Wagner replaced Vinita Nair on CBS This Morning Saturday.
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In 2020, Alex Wagner launched a podcast with Crooked Media and Cadence13 that addressed the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Alex Wagner and Kass' first child, Cyrus, was born in 2017.