Tin Swe Thant, Carl Wagner

American journalist and author Alexandra Swe Wagner was born on November 27, 1977.

She co-hosts The Circus on Showtime and is the author of FutureFace: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging (One World/Random House).

She also works as a contributor for CBS News and as an editor for The Atlantic. From 2011 until 2015, she presided over MSNBC’s lunchtime program Now with Alex Wagner.

From November 2016 until March 2018, she co-anchored CBS This Morning Saturday. She has also worked as The Atlantic’s senior editor since April 2016.

Alex Wagner Parents: Tin Swe Thant, Carl Wagner

Being the mother of Alex Wagner, Tin Swe Thant is well-known. Carl Wagner is the name of her spouse.

Before enrolling at Swarthmore College, her mother Tin Swe Thant, an immigrant from Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma), naturalized as a citizen of the United States.

Her father, Carl Wagner, was of Luxembourger and Irish ancestry and was from Lansing, Iowa.

He co-chaired Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign and was a well-known political strategist for the Democratic Party.

She attended Woodrow Wilson High School and earned her degree in art history and literature from Brown University in 1999.