Background
Zernike, Kate was born on December 8, 1968.
Zernike, Kate was born on December 8, 1968.
Bachelor in English and History, University Toronto, 1990. Master of Science, Columbia University, 1992.
She is the author of Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America (2010), on the Tea Party movement. The Christian Science Monitor in 2010 remarked that "probably no other journalist in the United States has devoted as much time to covering the tea party movement". Born and raised in Connecticut, Zernike is a graduate of the University of Toronto where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in history and English.
She later received a master"s in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1992.
Zernike began her career in journalism at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts where she worked from 1992 to 1995. She has taught as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.