Are her parents American?

Katie Zacharia, the 37th White House Press Secretary, was adopted as a newborn, so the question of whether her parents are American depends on which parents you mean: her adoptive parents, who raised her in California, or her biological parents, whose backgrounds are not on the public record.

Zacharia was raised by adoptive parents in California after being placed for adoption shortly after birth, and she has spoken publicly about being adopted as a newborn and growing up in a Christian household in Southern California. The names of her adoptive parents have not been widely disclosed, but every account of her upbringing places the family firmly in the Los Angeles area, and public records confirm she is an American citizen by birth, raised in the Los Angeles area. Her adoptive parents are American by everything the record shows.

On the biological side, she has shared that her biological mother was 19 years old when she became pregnant, and that her birth mother had considered ending the pregnancy but changed her decision after speaking with a Christian counselor. She has also spoken about reconnecting with her biological mother when she was 18 years old. Beyond those details, her biological mother has not been publicly identified by name, and nothing in the public record establishes her nationality.

Some biographical sites list Zacharia more broadly as Caucasian or White American, which aligns with Sicilian Italian ancestry, but she has not released an extensive family tree or immigration history.