Rahel Solomon | |
|---|---|
| Education | B.S. St. John's University M.A. Northwestern University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Television | WSAZ-TV KCNC-TV KYW-TV CNBC CNN |
| Spouse | Marcel S. Pratt |
Rahel Solomon is a Sudanese-American television journalist. She currently hosts the 2025 program Early Start on CNN. [1] She also serves on CNN as a business reporter. [1]
Solomon was born in Sudan to parents of Ethiopian origin. [1] She moved to the United States at the age of three where her parents first settled in West Philadelphia. [2] Solomon was raised in Delaware County and is a graduate of Archbishop Prendergast High School in the Drexel Hill neighborhood of Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania. [3] In 2010, she graduated with a B.S. in finance from St. John's University in Queens, New York City; [1] [3] and then with a M.A. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. [3]
Solomon has lived in various places, including West Virginia, Colorado, France, Spain and Italy, where she resided while partaking in a study-abroad program. [1] She has lived most of her life in the Greater Philadelphia area. [1]
After school, Solomon worked as a multimedia journalist for WSAZ-TV in Charleston, West Virginia; and then in January 2014, she accepted a position as a reporter and fill-in anchor at CBS-affiliate KCNC-TV in Denver, Colorado. [3] In 2015, she was named 2015 Broadcast Journalist of the Year by the Colorado Association of Black Journalists. [3] From 2017 to 2019, Solomon was the morning anchor for KYW-TV in Philadelphia. [1] She would leave the station to become a reporter for CNBC. [1] In April 2022, Solomon joined CNN. [1]
On July 13, 2024, Solomon married Philadelphia-based lawyer Marcel S. Pratt at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [1]
She regards herself as an "on-again, off again" long-distance runner, stating that "I've done a half marathon, a full marathon and multiple 10-milers", and that, "When I'm in the swing of it, I love long distance runs". [1]