Rachel Crane Bio, Age, Parents, Husband, Kids, Salary, Net Worth, CNN Career

Rachel Crane Biography

Rachel Crane is a journalist from the United States working as an innovation and space correspondent for CNN. She joined the station in April 2014.

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How old is Rachel Crane? – Age

Rachel is 35 years old as of 26th October 2021. She was born in 1985, in New York.

Who is Rachel Crane’s father? – Parents – Family

Wendy Hoffman is her mother, but her father’s identity is unknown. Her mother is a primatologist who works as an EMT. She was one of The Reel Team’s founding members.

Rachel Crane Height

She stands at a height of 5 feet 3 inches.

Who is Rachel Crane married to? – Husband

She is married to Andrew Marks, an investment banker. The couple married in the French Riviera with a ceremony at the Villa et Jardins Ephrussi de Rothschild on October 7, 2017. The couple attended the same Los Angeles high school, but Rachel was a year ahead of Andrew and didn’t know him. Andrew Marks is an investment banker and the son of Howard Marks, an American billionaire. He is a partner at TQ Ventures and a former partner at Freemark Partners, a private investment firm that owns and operates a portfolio of high-quality companies.

Rachel Crane Children

The couple has two children; Theo Mason born in January 2019 and Skylar Crane Marks born on January 21, 2021.

Rachel Crane and her husband Andrew Marks on their wedding day
Rachel Crane and her husband Andrew Marks on their wedding day

Rachel Crane Net Worth – Salary

Crane has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million. Her salary is not revealed.

Rachel Crane Career

Crane creates original video content for CNN’s platforms, such as the original series City of Tomorrow, which highlights innovations in cities around the world, Elon Evolution, which explores the world’s most pressing issues with Elon Musk, Pioneers with Rachel Crane, which profiles the great minds who are pushing the boundaries of human achievement, Way Up There, which delves into the future of space exploration, and Mission Ahead, which delves into the future of space exploration.

She previously worked as a general correspondent for CNN, covering breaking news such as the Travel Ban and a terrorist attack, before returning to her true passion, space, and innovation. She joined CNN after working at Bloomberg as a technology and innovation correspondent. Crane’s responsibilities included hosting and producing “Bloomberg Brink,” a show about cutting-edge technology and new ideas, and “The Next Space Race,” a show about the thriving space exploration industry. Crane previously produced and hosted “I Believe,” a web series about religion in America, “Fleaing the World,” a series about flea markets, and “Home Ed,” a documentary about homeschooling.

Crane has a long history of covering innovation, having interviewed Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Richard Branson of Virgin, famed futurist and Google’s director of engineering Ray Kurzweil, former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, and Jim Bridenstine of NASA.

Crane was recently honored with the NewSpace Journalism award, which is given to an organization or individual for outstanding work in space journalism. She also received the Commercial Spaceflight Federation’s Excellence in Commercial Space Journalism Award, and she hopes to travel to space one day.