Julia Ainsley

Edwards graduated in 2009 from Davidson College in North Carolina.^[2]

In 2013 she worked at Thomson Reuters as a criminal justice correspondent and White House correspondent covering counterterrorism, immigration, and criminal justice reform from Reuters' Washington bureau.^[3][4] She then worked at NBC News from 2017 as a national security and justice reporter covering the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security.^[3][5][6]

In 2022 Ainsley was promoted to homeland security correspondent, and covers the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security.^[7][8]

Ainsley married Newman Ainsley, and the couple has two daughters. In 2019, while she was pregnant, she began to have a bout of morning sickness while she was on-air live on MSNBC giving a report, and it forced her to step off-camera before it was later revealed that she was expecting.^[9][10] In 2021, they had their second child.^[11]