Rachel Crane Biography
Rachel Crane is a media personality serving as a CNN correspondent covering aerospace, innovation, and technology. She previously worked as a reporter at Bloomberg TV.
Rachel Crane Age
She was born on October 25, 1985.
Rachel Crane Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 3 inches tall.
Rachel Crane Education
She has a bachelor’s degree in religious studies from Princeton University and a master’s degree in news and documentary film from New York University.
Rachel Crane Parents
She is the daughter of Wendy Hoffman but the name of her father is unknown. Her mother is an EMT and a closet primatologist. She is a former founding partner of The Reel Team.
Rachel Crane Husband
Crane got married to Andrew Marks on October 7, 2017 at the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild on the French Riviera. The couple went to the same high school in Los Angeles but Rachel was a year ahead and didn’t know Andrew although he knew her. Years later they met at a friend’s birthday and sat next to each other. “When I saw him, I was like, ‘You . . . I know you!’ We didn’t speak to anyone else at the party. It was pretty instant.” Racheal said.
Andrew Marks is an investment banker and the son of American billionaire Howard Marks. He is a parther at TQ Ventures and a former partner at Freemark Partners, a private investment firm focused on owning and operating a portfolio of high-quality businesses.
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Rachel Crane Children
Rachel Crane and her husband have two kids; Theo Mason born in January 2019 and Skylar Crane Marks born on January 21, 2021.
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Rachel Crane Astronaut
Rachel is not an astronaut but that was her dream job when she was a kid. While at Princeton she took a class at rocket science which she says set the stage for the rest of her career.
She has a long history covering innovation, interviewing SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Virgin’s Richard Branson, famed futurist and Google’s director of engineering Ray Kurzweil, former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, and former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
She was awarded the NewSpace Journalism Award, given to an organization or individual for outstanding work in journalism specifically focused on the space industry. She also received the Excellence in Commercial Space Journalism Award from the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and hopes to travel to space one day.
Rachel Crane CNN
Rachel is a digital correspondent for CNN. She joined the network in 2014 and serves as an innovation and space correspondent.
She creates video content to be shown across CNN’s platforms such as City of Tomorrow, which highlights innovations in cities around the world, Elon Evolution, which explores the greatest problems plaguing the globe with Elon Musk, Pioneers with Rachel Crane, which profiles the great minds who are pushing the boundaries of human achievement, Way Up There, which takes a deep dive into the future of space exploration, and Mission Ahead, that explores people and companies that are taking on issues like cancer, climate change, and poverty by thinking out of the box.
She previously served as a general correspondent covering the Travel Ban and a terrorist attack, before returning to space and innovation.
Prior to joining CNN, she served as a technology and innovation correspondent at Bloomberg TV. She hosted and produced “Bloomberg Brink,” a show highlighting cutting-edge technology and new ideas, and “The Next Space Race,” taking viewers on a journey through the thriving space exploration industry.
She previously produced and hosted “I Believe,” a web series on religion in America, “Fleaing the World” a series on the business of flea markets, and a documentary on homeschooling titled “Home Ed”.
She began her career in journalism as an associate producer at Loki Films before joining NY1 News as a news assistant.
Rachel Crane Salary
Her salary is estimated to be $77,897 annually.
Rachel Crane Net worth
Her estimated net worth is $1 million.
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