2024 Spring Gala Host

Kate Bolduan

co-anchor of CNN News Central

Kate Bolduan is co-anchor of CNN News Central, airing weekdays from 7am-10am ET.

Previously, she was anchor and host of CNN’s At This Hour, where she went behind the headlines to bring viewers critical live events as they happen, smart analysis, and news-making interviews with key players in politics and beyond.

Bolduan also hosted State of America on CNN International and co-anchored New Day and The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Bolduan plays an instrumental role in the network’s election coverage, including in the 2020 Presidential Election amid the coronavirus pandemic, reporting live from the pivotal battleground of Pennsylvania that Joe Biden had secured enough votes to win the presidency.

In 2019, Bolduan conducted the first television interview with Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten. That year she also secured an exclusive interview with the Syrian defector identified only by the codename Caesar about the human rights abuses he documented and smuggled out in secret. It was an interview credited by members of Congress as contributing to the passage of a sanctions package that bears Caesar’s name.

Previously, Bolduan served as a CNN congressional correspondent. Bolduan joined CNN in 2007 as a national correspondent for CNN Newsource, providing breaking news coverage and feature reports for more than 800 CNN Newsource affiliates. She began her television career as a production assistant for NBC News and MSNBC in Washington D.C. Bolduan graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from The George Washington University.