Karen Attiah Age (Bio Wiki) Husband, Married, Boyfriend, Parents

Personal Details Summary
Name	Karen Attiah
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB	August 12, 1986. As of 2025, she is around 39 years old.
Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Spouse / Partner	Check the full bio for relationship details.
Children / No. of Kids	None
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race	Black
Nationality	American
Where is Karen Attiah now?	Karen Attiah is a columnist for The Washington Post and writes a weekly newsletter.

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Karen Attiah is an American writer, editor, and journalist.
Attiah is known for her passionate voice in matters of race, religion, and gender. Her focus of work also includes international affairs, especially those based in Africa.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Karen Attiah was born on August 12, 1986, in Desoto, Texas, a small town outside of Dallas.
Her mother is a Nigerian-Ghanaian who was being raised in Ghana but fled at the age of 14 to Nigeria due to civil conflict.
Her father is Ghanaian as well.
Karen’s parents met in college in Ghana, then immigrated to the United States.
Currently, she resides in Washington D.C. She is not married and does not have any children.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

Attiah was raised in Northwest Texas. She was only one of three girls in her high school graduating class!
She has a Bachelors degree in communications from Northwestern University with a minor in African studies.
She earned her Master of Arts degree in International Affairs from Columbia University.
In 2008, Karen was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Ghana.

Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :

At the beginning of her career, while based in the Caribbean, Attiah worked as a freelance writer for the Associated Press.
In 2014, Karen joined The Washington Post. She worked as the digital producer in the opinions section. She was later named the ‘Editor of Global Opinions,’ a position she held from Nov 2016 to Jun 2021. Since June 2021, she is working primarily as a Columnist, where she writes on race, international affairs, culture, and human rights.
Her work focuses frequently on race & gender issues and international politics.
Outside of the United States, she has reported from Curacao, Ghana, and Nigeria.

Interesting Facts and Trivia :

Karen speaks fluent Spanish.
The now-successful editor once thought of studying law when she was young.
Always a lover of books, as a small child, Karen raided her father’s library constantly to poor over his books.
Attiah visited Nigeria, a place her mother refused to return to after fleeing.
The journalist is said to have learned a lot about her mother’s past when working on a graduate school paper on the Biafra war, the Nigerian Civil War fought between the Nigerian government and the secession state of Biafra.

Jamal Khashoggi Story :

In 2016, Karen made news when then-candidate Donald Trump called her beautiful after a press conference.
A year later, she was in the spotlight again when one of her Global Opinions journalists at The Post, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, went missing after entering the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Istanbul, Turkey.
Kashoggi’s disappearance and death made international news and caused great strife.
Attiah was interviewed on many international news networks as Khashoggi’s editor, and even broke down during one of the interviews.
Two days after his disappearance, Attiah, as his editor, decided to leave his column space blank with the title “A Missing Voice.”
His death affected Attiah greatly and she often posted about him on her social media.

Body Figure / Physical Info

Karen Attiah Measurements :

Eye Color : Black
Haircut / Hair Color : Brown
Karen Attiah Height : 5′8″
Feet / Legs / Boots / Shoe Size : No confirmed information is available.
Pregnant? : Currently, she is not expecting a baby.
Weight Loss : A few Google queries regarding this, but we couldn’t find anything conclusive on any of her social media.

1 thought on “Karen Attiah Age (Bio Wiki) Husband, Married, Boyfriend, Parents”

Kenneth Petty Nov 6, 2020 at 8:27 pm


I love your writing style and devour your columns. Trump isn’t that crazy if he called you beautiful. I am so in love with Ghanain lifestyle & African culture. It would be beyond my greatest imagination to hear from you.