Kate Zernike

Marjorie Kehe of The Christian Science Monitor remarked in 2010 that it was likely that "no other journalist in the United States has devoted as much time to covering the tea party movement".

[3] Her paternal grandfather, Frits Zernike, was a Dutch physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953.

[6][independent source needed] She has also taught as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

[9] She also won the Education Writers Association prize for news feature reporting in 2000,[citation needed] and the Benjamin Fine Award in 1995.

[citation needed] In 2005, she married Dr. Jonathan D. Schwartz in a ceremony presided over by a leader from the New York Society for Ethical Culture.