Athena Jones

Today we're marching for change with Athena Jones, a daughter, sister, breast cancer advocate, and 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.

Listen to Athena’s inspiring story.