Abby Phillip

Abigail Daniella Phillip (born November 25, 1988) is a CNN senior political correspondent who currently anchors CNN NewsNight. She previously worked for Politico covering the Obama White House, The Washington Post as a national political reporter, and ABC News as a digital reporter for politics. Early life and education Of Afro-Trinidadian descent, Abby Phillip was born in Alexandria, Virginia to June Phillip, now a realtor, and Carlos Phillip, a teacher and later an educational psychologist. She has five siblings. When she was a child, the family briefly moved back to Trinidad and Tobago and returned to the U.S. when she was nine years old. The family moved to Germantown, Maryland before settling in Bowie, Maryland. Phillip attended Bowie High School. In 2010, she graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in government, after originally intending to study pre-med. At Harvard, Phillip wrote for The Harvard Crimson. Career