11 Facts About Kristen Welker

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Kristen Welker was born on July 1,1976 and is an American television journalist working for NBC News.

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Kristen Welker serves as a White House correspondent based in Washington, DC, and co-anchor of Weekend Today, the Saturday edition of Today, alongside Peter Alexander.

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Kristen Welker's father is an engineer, her mother a real estate agent.

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Kristen Welker graduated from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia in 1994 and Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1998.

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Kristen Welker then joined NBC News in 2010 as a correspondent based at the NBC News West Coast Headquarters in Burbank, California.

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Kristen Welker became an NBC White House correspondent in December 2011.

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Kristen Welker regularly represents MSNBC at the daily White House press briefings as well as reports live for various programs on the channel.

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Kristen Welker occasionally fills in on NBC Nightly News and Today.

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On January 10,2020, NBC announced that Kristen Welker would become the regular co-anchor of Weekend Today alongside Peter Alexander.

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Kristen Welker debuted as co-anchor on Weekend Today on January 11,2020.

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Kristen Welker married John Hughes on March 4,2017, in Philadelphia.