PERSON: Ashley Parker

Senior National Political Correspondent

Ashley Rebecca Parker is an American journalist, a White House reporter for The Washington Post, and senior political analyst for MSNBC. From 2011 to 2017 she was a Washington-based politics reporter for The New York Times.

Parker was born and raised in Bethesda, Maryland by Bruce and Betty Parker. Her father is a former president of Environmental Industries Association, a Washington, D.C. based trade organization. She has lived in Bethesda for the majority of her life, except during her college years and a few years while working for The New York Times. Her immediate family still resides in the area.

She married Michael C. Bender, who was at the time a White House reporter for The Wall Street Journal, on June 16, 2018.

Parker and her husband have a daughter, Mazarine, born in November 2018. Parker is stepmother to Bender’s daughter from a previous marriage.

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