Athena Jones is a journalist with two decades of experience working in wire services and in print and broadcast media. She is a skilled writer, moderator, and public speaker.

Athena began her career at Bloomberg News in Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she reported on the economy, politics, and culture. As a campaign reporter for NBC and the National Journal, she covered the 2008 campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and worked as an NBC White House producer before joining CNN as a correspondent in 2011. At CNN, she covered general news and Congress and served as a White House correspondent during the first nine months of the Trump administration, after filling in for the final year of the Obama administration. She returned to NYC in 2017 as a national correspondent, covering a wide range of stories, including politics, the Covid pandemic, education and immigration trends, and the impact of the war in Gaza on teens’ mental health.

Athena is a breast cancer survivor, diagnosed twice in her 30s, and is co-directing/co-producing a feature documentary 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 the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.