Under the Sisterhood

When the Journalist Becomes the Story: Athena Jones's March for Change

• Elizabeth Elfenbein • Season 5 • Episode 40

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Today we’re marching for change with Athena Jones a daughter, sister, breast cancer advocate and a journalist with more than two decades of experience in print and broadcast media. A skilled writer, moderator and public speaker, she began her career at Bloomberg News in Chile and Argentina. She covered the 2008 campaigns of then Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for NBC News and the National Journal and worked as an NBC White House producer from 2009 to 2011. Athena joined CNN as a correspondent in 2011. She served as a White House correspondent during the first Trump administration and as a national correspondent in New York until August 2024. 

Athena is a breast cancer survivor and advocate and is co-directing a feature documentary (Sisters’ Keepers) on Black women, breast cancer and health equity. She graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in Government and has a master’s degree from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.


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