Kirsten Welker is the Whitehouse correspondent for NBC. Welker was born on July 1st, 1976 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Born into a biracial family Welker has no siblings. Notably, her mother is an African-American and her father is white. Her parents are Julie and Harvey Welker. Interestingly, she attended Germantown Friends School where she graduated with honors in 1994. After that, she attended Harvard. In 1998 she graduated cum laude with Bachelor of Arts degree and a major in history. The step to a career in journalism was easy with such an impressive bio. ... Read more