The Harvard University graduate, who began her career as a 21-year-old intern at NBC, expressed her excitement earlier this year when she was announced as co-anchor of Weekend Today.

"To have come here as an intern for the TODAY show, to shoot that reel — I looked so serious,'' the journalist told The Today Show. "To be terrified like that and then to come and sit at this desk, to sit next to my friend Peter Alexander every Saturday, it is the honor of a lifetime."

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How it started and how it’s going! #KristenWelker was once a TODAY intern and now she has moderated a presidential debate solo. Her story at the link in our bio.

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