Who is Lauren Hope? – Biography
Lauren Hope is an American meteorologist who currently works as the Nexstar ABC affiliate WMBB’s morning meteorologist from 4:30 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. to noon.
How old is Lauren Hope? – Age
Hope was born in the United States. Her date of birth is not revealed.
Lauren Hope Education
Lauren studied journalism and mass communication at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She interned at KPHO and was chosen to work on the weather for a local PBS station. She went on to earn a second bachelor’s degree in meteorology from Mississippi State University after completing her bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism.
Where did Lauren Hope go? – Career
Lauren left the Midwest to attend Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She fell in love with meteorology while interning at KPHO, the CBS affiliate. She auditioned and was chosen to do weather for the local PBS station in Phoenix, the country’s 11th largest media market, at the Cronkite School. She was later named the country’s third-best student weathercaster by the BEA Festival of Media awards.
Lauren had always aspired to work in the broadcast television industry. She fell in love with math, science, and theater at a young age and pursued these interests throughout high school before being accepted to a four-year broadcast journalism academy in the Chicago suburbs where she grew up. Mission trips to Mexico, Haiti, Jamaica, and Guatemala sparked her interest in weather throughout high school, as many of these places were affected by natural disasters.
She enjoys living in the panhandle but is no stranger to Florida. Lauren has spent every summer with her family here since she was five years old. And, despite having grown up in the Midwest and spent years in the Arizona desert, she says she is most interested in forecasting the tropics.
Lauren Hope Salary
She earns an annual salary of $100 thousand.
Lauren Hope Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.