Jenni Hogan

Jenni Hogan (born August 23) is the morning traffic anchor for KIRO-TV in Seattle. She joined KIRO in the fall of 2008.

Before KIRO
Hogan was born in Adelaide, Australia where she graduated from Underdale High School. Initially, Hogan started out at Adelaide University majoring in Finance. However, in 1997, she came to Seattle, Washington with the Australian National Rowing Team to race in the Windermere Cup and two years later, was offered a rowing scholarship at the University of Washington where she was captain of the Husky Women's Crew Team; winning two national championships. Jenni Hogan graduated in 2002 from UW in Economics and Communications. She is actively involved with her alma mater, serving on the UW's Department of Communication alumni board of directors and leading its mentorship program.

After graduating from the University of Washington, Hogan became the first female sports director at KLEW 3 in Lewiston, Idaho. From there, she worked as a traffic reporter at KOIN 6 in Portland, Oregon and KOMO 4 in Seattle.

Career with KIRO
Hogan joined KIRO-TV in the fall of 2008 as the morning traffic anchor.

Community involvement
Hogan has used the online community to help causes. In December 2010 Hogan came up with the concept of a mobile tweet up, where instead of asking people to come to her, she teamed up with KIRO-TV KIRO-TV and Brotherton Cadillac to drive around to her Twitter and Facebook supporters and collect donations for a cause. The team came together to do their 2nd tweet up in March.

In March 2010 she flew to NY as a finalist in the journalist category for the Shorty Awards for Twitter. She teamed up with Bravado designs to donate one maternity bra per vote she received. They ended up donating more than 2,000 maternity bras to Within Reach to hand out to mothers in need in Washington State Washington (state).

She served on the University of Washington's Department of Communication alumni board of directors leading its mentoring program from 2009-2011.

Other Ventures
Hogan is the founder of the online community Mission Hot Mama and a co-founder of the GoGirl Academy. GoGirl Academy (GGA) is a career advancement program for women who seek a competitive edge in the workplace. She provided play by play announcements at the 2011 Windermere Cup broadcasted by Root Sports.

Personal life
Hogan is married to Josh Hogan and they make their home in Seattle. On May 20, 2010, she gave birth to a daughter.