Carlie Hoffer is the daughter of MSNBC’s Morning Joe cohost and Know Your Worth founder Mika Brzezinski and James Patrick Hoofer a host at WABC-TV. she is a freelancer art curator and a master’s candidate at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She is also an athlete and has been in the Berlin marathon.
Carlie Hoffer’s Personal Life
Carlie Hoffer was born in 1998 as the second daughter of Mika and James and has an elder sister Emilie Hoffer who was born in 1996. She joined Johns Hopkins University and graduated with an undergraduate degree in political science. Emilie was a member of 2020 class at McCourt school of public policy studying development policy. Her parents met while working at WTIC-TV got married in October 1993 had two children and unfortunately separated in in 2016.
Carlies mother, Mika, moved on and go married to her cohost Joe Scarborough in 2018. They don’t have children together but Joe has four children from his previous marriage; Joey, Andrew, Kate and Jack. They are loved for their chemistry on the show, lively debates and recently they were seen to have some tension on the show leaving viewers speculating about their relationship as their coworkers had to intervene.
Details of Mika Brzezinski, Carlie Hoffers Mother
Mike Brzezinski is an American talk show host on MSNBC’s weekday morning broadcast show along her husband Joe Scarborough. She started her journalism career in 1990 as an assistant at ABC World News This Morning. She was promoted to general assignment reported in 1991 as she moved to Fox affiliate WTIC-TV in Hartford, Connecticut. She served as a correspondent and anchor for Up to the Minute news program at CBS News.
She joined MSNBC in 2007 as a fill in anchor for the Up to the Minute news update and primetime newsbreaks during the week. She resigned when her renewal option was due and ended up being chosen as a cohost on Morning Joe along Willie Geist and Joe Scarborough.
Mika was criticized for her remarks calling Trumps secretary of state a wannabe dictator during a MSNBC broadcast and she had to apologize as people felt the remarks were homophobic. She banned Trump spokesperson Kellyanne Conway from appearing in her shows claiming she was spreading fake news and only wanted to be seen on tv to prove her relevance. She had also been criticized for often phone interviews with Donald Trump on the presidential campaign in 2016.
Mika’s political interest is in wage equality for women. She has published three books on food addiction and journalism career called All Things at Once, Women, Money and Getting What You’re Worth and America’s Food Addiction and My Own. She is the daughter of political scientist and diplomat Zbigniew Brzezinski who was a counselor to President Lyndon B Johnson and National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter.
In 2021, she was selected for the inaugural Forbes 50 over 50 a space made of scientists, entrepreneurs, and leaders over the age of 50. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by SWPS University in 2022.
