Rahel Solomon

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]

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

Early life

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]

Career

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]

Personal life

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]