Kayla was born on 17 July 1986. She was born in Minneapolis in Minnesota in United States of America. She is a 30 year old American Broadcast Journalist. She completed her schooling from The Greater Atlanta Christian School .Later it was reported that she joined University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She completed her bachelor’s degree. Her major subjects were business journalism and international politics. That is what she choose for her career path later on and she had been highly successful for the same.


She was also a part of the cheerleading team. She is known to have a very strong academic background. She had been honoured for a couple of projects she did in her university which was a research about how international newspaper reported the handover of Hong Kong to China by the British Kingdom. The report was a great success and the teachers loved it.

She did not wait for her graduation to be completed to start her career rather she took her first step while she was in college. In 2006 she started working with the Associated Press as an intern. Once she completed her graduation she got a job with Bloomberg. She was reporting there as an intern and she worked with Bloomberg for four months. While working with Bloomberg she got many good opportunities to interview analyst and other great personalities.

Kayla is known to be really hard working as she managed to reach quite a successful phase in her career with in a decade. She is loved and admired by a lot of people. Her work is also appreciated regularly. She is the inspiration of the upcoming news journalist. They always look upon her for career advice and skills.

In 2008 Kayla started working with Deal Reporter in New York City and she worked there for two years before she joined CNBC. She joined CNBC in January 2011. Her designation there was a general assignment reporter. She did really well while working with CNBC and that became on the reason for her growing success. No doubt she performed and won billions of hearts. Since 2014, she is hosting the show Squawk Alley. She also worked as a substitute for Squawk Box.

Kayla was engaged to Jeffery Izant who was also her long term boyfriend. She decided to marry him in April 2005. It is reported that they met each other in the college for the first time. Her husband is known to be a successful lawyer. He works with one of the best law firms in the world, his current employer is Graufis and Co. Jeffery was Kayla’s first love and the couple lead a happy life together. Kayla’s annual salary not publics. But it is clear that she earns a healthy salary as she has got a huge fan following. Her net worth is also not public. But her net worth is estimated to be in at least 8 figure.

Last Modified: Apr 6, 2020


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