Join us at The Dreamland for another exciting installment of our long-running Conversations series featuring Kaitlan Collins – CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent and anchor of The Source with Kaitlan Collins – in a wide-ranging conversation with Nantucket’s own powerhouse author, film and television producer, and podcaster Elin Hilderbrand.
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Kaitlan Collins is the anchor of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins weeknights at 9pm ET and is the network’s Chief White House Correspondent.
Both on The Source and as Chief White House Correspondent, Collins chases the facts, asks the tough questions, and connects with her sources so viewers can get the very latest in primetime. She gives them unprecedented access to the White House, Capitol Hill and beyond.
She secures exclusive interviews with political power players, including her headline-worthy interviews with Secretary Hillary Clinton, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary Marco Rubio, Secretary Scott Bessent, Attorney Marc Agnifilo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and more. In May 2023, Collins also moderated CNN’s live Republican Presidential Town Hall with former President Donald Trump, which was his first town hall-style event of the 2024 presidential campaign.
Previously, Collins was the co-anchor and chief correspondent of CNN This Morning. Prior to the launch of the morning show in November 2022, she served as CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent based in Washington, D.C. Since joining the network in 2017, Collins has broken several stories in her coverage of both the Biden and Trump administrations, including major staff departures and consequential policy decisions. In those years, she covered President Biden and President Trump abroad, and pushed both on the world stage.
Collins was named to 2024’s “TIME100 Next List” and been included in Mediaite’s annual list of the “Most Influential People in News Media” since 2018. She was also named to Crain’s NewsPro’s “12 to Watch in TV News” in 2019, as well as one of Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30: Media” in the same year. In 2023, she was named on Variety’s”New Power of New York list”.
Collins is a graduate of the University of Alabama.
Elin Hilderbrand has lived year-round on Nantucket for thirty years. She’s the #1 NYT bestselling author of 31 books. Her novel THE PERFECT COUPLE has been adapted into a six-episode limited series with Netflix starring Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber and Eve Hewson. Hilderbrand is the co-host of the literary podcast Books, Beach and Beyond along with @timtalksbooks creator, Tim Ehrenberg. Presently she and her daughter Shelby Cunningham are writing two novels set at a New England boarding school. The first book, The Academy, will come out this September. Hilderbrand is a eleven-year breast cancer survivor. She enjoys cooking for her young adult children, going to the beach, and occasionally popping into the Chicken Box. GENERAL PUBLIC: $43 ($40 + $3 Service Fee) DREAMLAND MEMBERS: $30 (No Service Fee)
