Eli Stokols

Eli Stokols (born 1978/1979) He grew up in Irvine, California where his family were members of the Reconstructionist University Synagogue. He graduated from University High School in Irvine in 1997. He later graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career 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. He joined the WSJ s Washington bureau in March 2017. He previously worked as a national reporter for Politico. He joined Politico in the spring of 2016. While in Denver, he hosted, #COpolitics: From the Source, a weekly interview show.

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