Kate Bohner (born April 14, 1967, in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American journalist and writer. Bohner's father was an English literature professor which led her to spend some of her early years living in Europe. She attended the Wilmington Friends School, graduating after her Junior year.
After studying business and international studies at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1988, Bohner began her career in the mergers and acquisitions department at investment bank Lazard. After she left Lazard, she attended the Columbia University School of Journalism, where she received a Reader's Digest Literary Foundation Fellowship, graduating in 1992 with a Master of Science degree in journalism.
Upon graduating from the Columbia Journalism School she joined Forbes magazine as a fact checker. After 13 months she was promoted to writer. Her work appeared in the Small Business, Healthcare, Careers, investigative and other sections of the magazine. She was then asked to reinvent the column “The Informer,” rising to Associate Editor. During her time at Forbes, she was an on-air contributor to CNN and to E! Entertainment Network. She has also written for publications such as Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire and George Magazine.
She was briefly married to author Michael Lewis, known for his bestselling books Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, The Blind Side and Moneyball.
She co-authored Donald Trump's 1997 book Trump: Art of the Comeback. The book hit both the New York Times (#3) and the Wall Street Journal's (#1) Bestseller's Lists.
That same year she became a correspondent for CNBC, launching “Business Center,” with Maria Bartiromo and Tyler Mathison. She went on to write and broadcast “Kate Bohner’s Power File” on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” In 1998, Jack Reilly, the former executive producer at CNBC joined her and other NBC veterans in founding a startup, Internet news service, JAGfn, providing online content similar to that found on CNBC.
In 2000, she was the Managing Editor of Digital Financial Media for E*Trade's start-up financial-news effort, a six-day per week webcast from New York City -- the show also aired on Sundays on WNEW 102.7 FM.[1]
In 2002, she joined The Fort Hill Group, a New York-based investment banking, capital advisory and venture capital firm, as a partner. While at Fort Hill, she helped form and funded a medical device company, Living Independently Group, Inc. In the first quarter of 2010, Living Independently Group was successfully sold to General Electric, Inc. in a cash and stock transaction.
In 2006, Bohner launched “Kate’s Take” on her own YouTube channel KBTVonline. This was a four-minute daily videoblog based and shot in South Florida. The show covered a wide range of information from top news stories to quirky pop culture, finance, politics, healthcare and style. On Christmas Day of 2007, KBTVonline's video hit #1 in 19 countries. Bohner left South Florida for Los Angeles in 2008 and -- while she was there -- she was honored for her work in raising awareness about VVF in Nigeria while following Physicians for Peace through video and internet content, receiving the 2008 President’s Award for Special Achievement.
In November 2008, Bohner traveled to Thailand to live in a monastery and ordained as a Buddhist nun.
After graduating from a seven-month intensive course at the YogaFox Vinyasa School of Yoga, Bohner received her RYT-200 certification from the Yoga Alliance in June, 2010. She went on to teach 90-minute Vinyasa Flow classes at the Buddha Lounge and The Colony Hotel in Delray Beach.
Most recently, Bohner co-created, launched and served as National Director of a successful fitness program, FlyBarre--a combination of Pilates, circuit training, and yoga, with FlyWheel Sports, with whom she is now consulting. She lives in New York City and is single.