Alex Wagner Biography, Married, Husband, Children, Parents, Net Worth

Alex Wagner is an American political commentator and journalist. Beginning her career as a cultural correspondent for the Center for American Progress, Wagner went on to work for big names like MSNBC, CBS and Showtime. His journey to the top as well as his personal life are quite interesting…

Alex Wagner Bio (Parents)

She was born as Alexandra Swe Wagner on December 4, 1977, in Washington DC where she was also raised by her parents as a Roman Catholic. On the side of his mother Tin Swe Thant, Alex is of Burmese origin. Thant immigrated from Rangoon, Myanmar, to the United States. Alex’s father, Carl Wagner, is an American from Iowa. His roots are German and Irish.

Carl Wagner has long been involved in politics as a field manager and consultant. Democrat, he worked in the presidential campaign teams of Ted Kennedy (1980) and Bill Clinton.

Alex attended Woodrow Wilson High School, after She went on to Brown University in 1999 with a degree in Art History and Literature, although she initially wanted to study Egyptology.

After school, Alex had long wanted to work for RayGun, a music journal based in Los Angeles. However, thanks to an old neighbor John Podesta, who worked as a White House adviser, Alex managed to land a job at the Center for American Progress in New York as a cultural correspondent. Wagner had her dream of working on a publication when she was hired by music magazine Fader where she worked as editor from 2003 to 2007.

From then on, things only got better for Wagner. Then she was employed by ace Hollywood actor George Clooney who brought her to his anti-genocide advocacy organization, Not On Our Watch Project, to work as its executive director. The organization focused on the violation of human rights.

Wagner’s first job as a correspondent was for the political daily AOL where she worked as a White House correspondent during the Obama regime. After AOL acquired the Huffington Post, Wagner switched ships.

Her work in the White House had caught the attention of MSNBC President Phil Griffin, who offered her the opportunity to host her own show on his network. Wagner happily agreed and began hosting a weekday program, Now with Alex Wagner beginning in November 2011. She left after about 3½ years when the show was canceled as part of the network’s overhaul process. The show received an Emmy nomination.

Wagner’s next job was as editor for TheAtlantic Magazine, a role she took on in April 2016. Alongside this, she also worked with The Atlantic Studios on television projects. Wagner was called up in November 2016 to replace Vinita Nair on CBS This Saturday Morning. After two years on the program, she quit (but still works as a CBS correspondent) to replace the disgraced Mark Halperin on Showtime’s The Circus. Halperin was dropped from the show following multiple allegations of sexual harassment.

Wagner’s first book, FUTUREFACE, which examines questions of American identity in the 21st century, was released in 2018.

Married / Husband, Children

Alex Wagner is married to former White House chief Sam Kass of Obama. Kass noticed her when she started attending White House events. She was working with MSNBC at the time. Kass decided to ask his friend Richard Wolffe, an MSNBC commentator, to invite him to the MSNBC after-party so he could introduce him to Wagner.

Her friend did but told her he had no chance with her. He was wrong. Wagner and Kass started very soon after their first date where they discovered many similarities between them, such as the fact that they were both Washington Nationals fans.

News of their romance reached The Washington Post, which reported it in August 2013. About a month later, the two were engaged. They married on August 30, 2014 in Pocantico Hills, New York at a restaurant called Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

The then-POTUS helmsman Obama alongside his wife Michelle and daughters attended the ceremony.

Sam Kass, born in 1980, knew Michelle Obama from the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago where he was raised. Back when Obama was running for president, a busy Michelle employed Kass to work in her kitchen. Kass has become like a big brother to Sasha and Malia Obama. Bringing Kass even closer to the Obamas was the fact that her father, Robert, taught Malia during her 5th year at the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

In addition to cooking for the Obamas, Kass was also employed to work as Obama’s senior policy advisor for nutrition policy. He left the White House in late 2014 and by 2015 was employed by NBC as a senior food analyst.

On July 21, 2017, Wagner and Kass welcomed their first child, a son named Cy Kass.

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Net value

Alex Wagner has had a lot of success in his career. With an average annual salary of $600,000, his net worth is estimated at $3 million.

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