Kitty Pilgrim
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Kathryn Pilgrim, known professionally on television as Kitty Pilgrim [1], is a New York-based anchor and correspondent for CNN. Pilgrim serves mainly as the secondary anchor, on nights in which Lou Dobbs is not anchoring the program, as well as a regular correspondent for the CNN program Lou Dobbs Tonight.
Pilgrim joined CNN in 1986 as a production assistant. Prior to her current position she served as writer and field producer for Moneyline and as a writer and producer for Inside Business. Pilgrim has also served as an anchor for CNN’s morning program Early Edition, as well as CNN’s Your Money.
Pilgrim also served as a correspondent for CNN’s Southeast Bureau and was the lead correspondent on the Birmingham, Alabama, abortion clinic bombing in 1998 and the subsequent hunt for suspect Eric Rudolph. She was also part of the CNN Moneyline team that won an Overseas Press Club Award for its week of live broadcasts from Havana, Cuba, in 1995.
Pilgrim is a graduate of Manhattanville College and has a master’s from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Pilgrim has a pet rabbit with tall exceedingly furry ears called Einstein.
