Kristen Holmes Biography
Kristen Holmes is a media personality serving as a correspondent for CNN based in Washington, D.C. She joined the network in January 2017 as a Newsource correspondent.
Kristen Holmes Age
She was born on February 24, 1986 in Oklahoma, United States.
Kristen Holmes Height
She is 5 feet 4 inches tall.
Kristen Holmes Nationality
Holmes is American by nationality.
Kristen Holmes Education
In 2009, Kristen received a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She also graduated from Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism with a Masters degree in Broadcast journalism and Documentary Filmmaking in 2012. In addition, she participated in Italian Immersion Program from Boston University in 2007.
Kristen Holmes Family
She is the daughter of Louis Roman and Sven E. Holmes. Her mother, Louis is a former editor of Washington Post Live as well as the newspaper’s live events platform. She is also the director of the International Center for Research on Women’s Foreign Policy Group in Washington. Currently, she is working on a book about Mary Todd Lincoln.
Her father, Sven is a trustee of St. Mary’s College, Maryland. He is also a vice-chairman of KPMG.
Kristen Holmes Husband
Holmes married Noah William Gray on September 7, 2019 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, US. Rabbi Jonathan Fisch officiated at a private home rented for the occasion by the couple. The couple initially met in 2015 over the telephone, when Kristen was a new on-air producer at the White House and Gray was a booking producer in Atlanta. There was an illegal drone over the White House and Gray called Kristen to go on-air with breaking news. Afterward, Gray emailed and suggested they meet for coffee, but the timing did not work out and it was not until a year later that they met in person, when both were covering Trump presidential campaign.
Kristen Holmes Kids
Holmes does not have kids.
Kristen Holmes CNN
Holmes is a correspondent for CNN in Washington, D.C. She is covering the White House and all things Washington. Previously, she was a national correspondent for CNN Newsource, where her stories and live reports aired on CNN’s network of more than 1,000 affiliates. During her time there, she covered the 2018 midterm elections extensively and created a voter issue series that took her across the country to depict what mattered most to Americans.
Holmes also reported on some of the country’s biggest nonpolitical stories, including Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the Las Vegas shooting, and traveled to Guam to document the escalating tensions between the United States and North Korea.
Kristen first joined CNN as an intern for Piers Morgan Live. After her internship, she became an editorial producer for The Lead with Jake Tapper, a CNN producer in the White House and a CNN producer embedded with the 2016 Trump campaign. While in Washington, D.C., she also worked as a producer on several projects with Katie Couric at Yahoo and with News Channel 8.
Kristen Holmes Salary
Holmes earns an annual salary ranging between $94,340 to $101,652.
Kristen Holmes Net Worth
Her estimated net worth is $2 million.
Kristen Holmes Instagram
She does not have an Instagram account.
