[5] Her father is an Israeli Defense Forces veteran and project manager for a drug company; her mother is a Hebrew teacher.

[4] During school, she worked as a news and feature editor at The GW Hatchet where she received awards from the Society for Professional Journalists and the Associated College Press.

[9] She left Politico after five years to work for CNN as their politics, media and global business reporter.

"[7] On May 27, 2018, Gold retweeted an Arizona Republic article[12] of migrant children being held at an ICE detention facility, including photos of them in cages.

The article was first tweeted by numerous other journalists and public figures following President Donald Trump's new policy of taking children away from parents who are caught unlawfully crossing the Mexican border into the United States including New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein, Shaun King, Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, activist Linda Sarsour, and former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.