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Kristen Elizabeth Holmes is an American journalist who works as a national correspondent for CNN.

Holmes was born in Washington, D.C. to journalist Lois Romano and American federal jurist Sven Erik Holmes. Her paternal grandmother was the late linguist, author and scholar Frances Edith Ruth Bradley Holmes.

Holmes grew up in Tulsa Oklahoma, attending the highly rated Booker T Washington High School. In high school, she wrote for the Tulsa World, was captain of her school's tennis team, and was a member of the debate team. She completed her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University, graduating in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in journalism. At Northwestern, she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

Following college, she was a corps member of Teach for America in Chicago, teaching third and fifth grade at Chicago International Charter School Longwood. She then went on to attend Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, receiving an MS in broadcast journalism in 2012. She was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority.

Upon completing graduate school, she officially joined CNN as an intern for Piers Morgan Live. After her internship, she became an editorial producer for the The Lead with Jake Tapper. She was later a CNN producer in the Obama White House, followed by an assignment to follow the 2016 Donald Trump campaign.

During the 2020 campaign she was the host of CNN’s “Election 101”.

[https://tulsaworld.com/archive/out-of-africa/article%207cf275e1-df69-5882-8b42-b822a9233293.html Out of Africa, KRISTEN HOLMES Satellite Correspondent Sep 10, 2004 Updated Feb 19, 2019