Kirsten Gum is an adventure traveler, sports commentator, and raw food chef. She was also the host of the reality television series Cash & Treasures and Treasure Hunter: Kirsten Gum on the Travel Channel.
Kirsten was born in Alaska but raised on an apple orchard in Okanogan, Washington, and attended the University of Washington, where she graduated from the Broadcast Journalism and Political Science schools.
After working as one-woman broadcast team in Jefferson City, Missouri, Gum landed her first on-air jobs as a news reporter and sportscaster in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Fox 18 WCCB in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she was a news anchor and was voted "Sexiest Woman in Charlotte." She then went on to host the following television shows over a period that lasted nearly two decades: Fox Sports Net's Totally NASCAR, ESPN’s Outdoor Block, Outdoor Living Network’s Tour de France studio show (where she was the first-ever female host for the event), Travel Channel's Treasure Hunter: Kirsten Gum, and Discovery HD Theater's What's My Car Worth? At one time, Gum was considered the most recognizable woman in sports commenting.