Athena Jones is an American correspondent for CNN. She has been a general assignment Journalist since 2011 and is based in CNN's Washington, D.C bureau.

Previously, Jones was a White House producer with NBC, where she wrote packages, produced story segments and reported on air for MSNBC and NBC News. Jones covered the presidential campaigns of then-Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama during the 2008 election cycle for NBC and the National Journal. Prior to her work at NBC, Jones served as a freelance segment producer for CNN. In addition, from 2001 to 2003, she worked as a reporter for Reuters based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she covered the Argentine presidential elections, the farm industry, the collapse of the country's economy and other general news stories. Prior to Reuters, Jones reported on politics Politics and the economy in both Chile and Argentina for Bloomberg News.

Jones graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in Government and earned her Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She studied Spanish language, literature and arts and European politics at the Complutense University of Madrid and Islamic studies at the American Research Center in Cairo, Egypt, with Duke University.

As of March 2020, Jones has about 25,000 followers on her AthenaCNN Twitter account, where she posts current political events. She also has about more than 2,000 followers on her iamathenajones Instagram account.^[1][17]