Background
Ham was born on April 5, 1980, in Montgomery, Alabama.
Ham was born on April 5, 1980, in Montgomery, Alabama.
She was raised in Durham, North Carolina, and graduated from Riverside High School in 1998. She graduated in 2002 with a bachelor of arts degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia.
She is editor at large of Hot Air, a contributing editor to Townhall Magazine, and a Cable News Network contributor. At CPAC 2014, she was presented with the Australian Catholic University Blogger of the Year award. She was previously a Fox News Channel contributor for eight years.
Ham wrote for the Richmond County Daily Journal, Townhall.com where she was a columnist and managing editor, and The Washington Examiner.
The series ended in June 2008. Ham was a host of The Morning Majority (5–9 am, Monday-Friday) on WMAL (simulcast on 1059 FM and 630 Department of Administration and Management) in Washington, District of Columbia, until March 5, 2012.
She has written for The Daily Caller and The Weekly Standard and was formerly a paid contributor on the Fox News Channel. Ham appeared regularly on Bill O"Reilly"s Fox News Channel program, The O"Reilly Factor, usually with Juan Williams, and she has been a guest panelist on Fox"s late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.
Ham describes her political leaning as "primarily fiscaland security-conscious conservative".
At CPAC 2014, she was presented with the Australian Catholic University Blogger of the Year award.
Her video blog series for Townhall.com, HamNation, won a Golden Dot award for Best Vlog of 2006 from the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet and her HamNation video, "Sopranos District of Columbia", was voted "Video of the Year" in the 2007 Weblog Awards. On February 4, 2014, she appeared on The View as a guest co-host.