Kristen Welker

About

Kristen Welker (born July 1, 1976) is an American television journalist working for NBC News. She serves as a White House correspondent based in Washington, D.C., and served as co-anchor of Weekend Today, the Saturday edition of Today, alongside Peter Alexander from 2020 to 2023. She took over hosting duties for the longest-running program in American television history, Meet the Press, on September 17, 2023.

Kristen Welker is the daughter of Harvey and Julie Welker. Her father is an engineer, her mother a real estate agent. Welker’s father is Jewish and her mother is African American. She graduated from the private Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia in 1994.
Welker received a Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude) with a major in American history from Harvard College in 1998. She interned for the TV program Today in 1997.

Welker has worked at ABC affiliates WLNE-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, and KRCR-TV in Redding/Chico, California, and joined NBC in 2005 at affiliate WCAU in Philadelphia, where she was a reporter and weekend anchor. She then joined NBC News in 2010 as a correspondent based at the NBC News West Coast Headquarters in Burbank, California…