Kasie Hunt


Kasie S. Hunt is an American political correspondent. She is an NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent, covering Congress across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms. Hunt is the host of MSNBC's Kasie DC, which airs on MSNBC on Sundays at 7 p.m. ET

Early life and education

Hunt was born and grew up in Wayne, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Bruce and Krista Hunt and sibling of younger sister Carly Hunt. Her father manages real estate design and construction for Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia, and her mother is a yoga teacher in Easton. Her sister is a former golfer for both the Georgetown Hoyas and Maryland Terrapins women's golf teams.
Hunt graduated from Conestoga High School in 2003. She attended George Washington University, graduating magna cum laude with a degree in international affairs in 2006. She earned her master's in sociology from St John's College, Cambridge.

Career

Hunt started her career in journalism as an intern in the political unit of NBC News. She was a health policy reporter for National Journal's CongressDaily, writing about the passage of the Affordable Care Act. She wrote for Politico, covering the 2010 midterm elections. She started working as a national political reporter for the Associated Press in August 2011 and covered Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.
In January 2013, Hunt joined NBC News as an off-air reporter and producer, covering Congress and politics. She started appearing regularly on MSNBC as a political reporter and in November 2014 became a political correspondent. She writes for msnbc.com and appears regularly on MSNBC and Bloomberg shows, including Morning Joe, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and With All Due Respect.
In October 2017, Hunt began anchoring her own talk show on MSNBC, Kasie DC, which airs in two separate segments on Sundays at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET

Personal life

Kasie Hunt married NBC News producer Matt Rivera on May 6, 2017.
On March 13, 2019, she announced that she was pregnant with their first child, due in August.
On September 4, 2019, she gave birth to her first child, a boy named Mars.