CNBC’s Kayla Tausche was born on July 17, 1986 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. In 2004 she graduated from Greater Atlanta Christian School. Afterwards she went to college where she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Business Journalism and International Politics in 2008. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During college she was part of the cheerleading team.Since college she started to work in media. First she started to work in the Brussels bureau of Associated Press. Her next job was at Bloomberg L.P – consumer and retail news. Later she became part of the DealReporter unit of Mergermarket. During this period she was invited many times as a guest in the CNBC and CNBC World in order to talk about mergers and acquisitions.
CNBC Career
Since 2011, Kayla Tausche is part of the CNBC’s permanent team as general assignment reporter for news involving corporate deals and finance. Her reports were presenting during CNBC’s business day programming. During this time she collaborated with MSNBC, Today, Weekend Today and NBC Nightly News.
She got extremely popular due to her financial analysis and investigations. Some of her most famous works include News Corporation phone hacking scandal, analysis over Facebook IPO filing and over the Occupy Wall Street movement. The most important cover she did was when she conducted the British handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese government. She was compared to Eric Brunett, being considered that her work is second after this journalist.
Now she is also a host of Squawk Box and Squawk on the Street. One of her most appreciated show was Power Lunch. Although her net worth is not known, rumors say that it is consistent of 6 figures. Her salary has been increasing constantly during her development as a journalist.
Personal Beliefs
Kayla is a strong feminist and she participated on several occasions to different protest and manifestations that were focused on the welfare of women and better treatment for underprivileged women. She also hosted programs meant to raise awareness for gender equality. She believes that men and women can be whatever they want to be and they don’t need to get tangled by stereotypes.
She believes in the equality of chances and stands against women abuse.
Family frame
Kayla is married to her boyfriend from college, Jeffrey Izant. Their wedding took place in Christ the King church in Atlanta. It was a big wedding, with hundreds of guests. Among them there were celebrities and Kayla’s coworkers. Although they are happily in love, Kayla did not take her husband’s name, keeping her own maiden name. This is not unusual for celebrities, mostly because of their job. It was proven that a change of name is directly linked to a decrease in the person’s popularity percentage.
For the moment the newly-wed couple doesn’t have children, but Kayla says that she can’t wait to be a mom. She wants at least two children, and her husband seems more than excited but this.
People have a great interest in Kayla Tausche’s life. This is why Wiki has a special page created for her and for fans who want to know more about her.
Kayla Tausche’s hobbies
During her free time she likes to run. She admits that she cannot go to the gym because she is unable to exercise while sitting in one place. She used to run marathons. Kayla says that she used to take the Ferry to the Governor’s Island and there she would run for the whole days. Now, because the time is short, she is looking for more close alternatives- like Central Park or Westside HighWay.
