Eli Stokols

Stokols was born into a Jewish family, the son of Jeannette J. Stokols and Daniel S. Stokols.[1] He grew up in Irvine, California[2] where his family were members of the Reconstructionist University Synagogue.[3] He graduated from University High School in Irvine in 1997.[4] He later graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.[1] While there, he pitched for the Cal baseball team.[5] He subsequently received an M.S. degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2002.[6]

He is currently a White House reporter for POLITICO. Previously a White House reporter for the Los Angeles Times , he covered the 2016 presidential campaign for The Wall Street Journal.[7] He joined the WSJ's Washington bureau in March 2017.[5] He previously worked as a national reporter for Politico.[8] He joined Politico in the spring of 2016.[5] Prior to that, he covered Colorado politics for nearly a decade at KDVR, and its sister station KWGN-TV, in Denver, Colorado.[7][9] While in Denver, he hosted, #COpolitics: From the Source, a weekly interview show.[9] In 2013 and 2014, he wrote for 5280 magazine.[10]

Stokols first marriage ended in divorce.[1] On September 15, 2018, he married Elena Cecilia Schneider in an interfaith ceremony at the Augsburg Lutheran Church in Winston-Salem, N.C.[1] They met in 2015 at Politico, where they both worked at the time.[1]