MaryAlice Parks Biography
MaryAlice Parks is the ABC News White House Correspondent appearing across the networks programs and platforms. She is also a columnist on ABC News websites and is a frequent contributor on the “Start Here” podcast.
MaryAlice Parks Age
Parks is 38 years old, she was born in 1986 and celebrates her birthday on February 3.
MaryAlice Parks Education
Mary holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science from Columbia University. She also holds a Master of Science in Broadcast journalism and documentary Film from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
MaryAlice Parks Height
She stands at the height of 5 feet 5 inches tall.
MaryAlice Parks Parents
Parks is the daughter of Alison (mother) and Colby Parks (father). Her father, Colby, is an attorney at A. Colby Parks. He specializes in Business Law, Civil Rights and Criminal Law. Her mother is a former school teacher. Mary was brought up alongside her two siblings; Elizabeth and Haley Parks.
MaryAlice Parks Husband
Mary is married her husband Christopher Kimmel on April 2, 2022 at Anne Wright Schools in Mary’s hometown of North Tacoma. Christopher is a former Navy JAG who retired in April 2022. She posted his photos on her Facebook account donning the Navy’s uniform with the caption,
“Today is the day — My favorite Navy JAG is officially leaving active duty. It’s been quite an adventure – he got his sea-legs in the courtroom, enjoyed time underway, worked on inter-agency investigations, lead dozens of cases, and, of course, served his country so honorably (he will stay in the reserves and continue to serve ?). I loved when he would surprise me around town in his uniform – and who can forget when he rocked that mustache! ?♀️? Lieutenant, my love, I love you so much and am so proud of you.”
MaryAlice Parks Baby
Parks has a son known as Patrick Colby Parks Kimmel born on February 25th, 2023.
MaryAlice Parks ABC News
Parks is the weekend White House Correspondent for ABC News. She reports across all the networks programs and platforms, including “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Nightline,” “20/20,” “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” ABC News Live, ABC News.com, and ABC Audio. She is also a columnist on ABC News websites and is a frequent contributor on the “Start Here” podcast which is hosted by Brad Mielke.
Prior to becoming a White House Correspondent, she served as a deputy political director based in the Washington Bureau. In her position, she co-authored the network’s daily political newsletter “The Note” for three years and served as a senior manager helping to oversee the national political coverage for the network.
During the 2020 presidential election, she played a pivotal role in hiring and managing the network’s largest and most diverse team of campaign embeds and worked with the special events and booking teams along with correspondents and anchors around the country on election night coverage. She also had a significant editorial role in ABC News debates and town halls throughout the election season.
Parks joined ABC News in 2013 as a Frank Reynolds Fellow. She was promoted in January 2014 as a producer for “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” She made her debut on the show’s roundtable in the spring of 2019. She also served as a campaign reporter for the network during the 2016 election cycle and was the first network reporter assigned to cover U.S Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid for the White House.
During her tenure, she has covered covered Capitol Hill, various breaking news stories out of Washington and served as the supervising producer on the three-day network special “Pandemic: A Nation Divided,” that examined the racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities amid the coronavirus pandemic coast-to-coast.
MaryAlice Parks Salary
Her basic annual salary is estimated to be around $140,686.
MaryAlice Parks Net worth
Mary has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
MaryAlice Parks Nose
Mary has a nose piercing. It is not out of the ordinary for people to get nose piercing but it is a rare sight for a live broadcaster to wear a nose ring.