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Professional Experience:
I joined WRAL-TV as a reporter in August 2008. Before that, I worked seven years as military reporter and weekend anchor at WTKR-TV in Norfolk, Va., home to the world's largest U.S. Navy base. My first stint as a Tar Heel journalist was just after Hurricane Floyd hit Eastern North Carolina. I joined WCTI-TV as the Carteret County Bureau Chief in Morehead City and reported from the Crystal Coast until just after the Sept. 11th attacks. Prior to that, I worked for two years chasing Grizzly bears and exploring Glacier National Park as a reporter/photographer for KCFW-TV in the wilds of Kalispell, Montana! My first on-air TV job was in tornado alley...a three-month college internship for KSNT-TV in Topeka, Kan. (Never saw scarier skies in my life!)

Education:
I spent four years of intense training at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University along the shores of Lake Michigan, just north of Chicago. I earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and after graduation, spent a summer teaching journalism to high school students there.

Awards & Recognition:
2008 Best Newswriting, North Carolina Associated Press Honorable Mention; 2007 FBI Citizens' Academy Graduate; 2006 Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters Association Award for Continuing Coverage for a series on a Navy SEAL murder in Virginia Beach which included trial coverage and travel out of state for exclusive interview with family; 2006 Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters Association Award for In-Depth Reporting for series on aggression by North Korea, including travel to the Demilitarized Zone on the North Korean border; 2001 North Carolina Correctional Association Award for Outstanding Journalism for coverage of prison inmate community projects in Eastern North Carolina; 1999 Montana Associated Press Award for Best Enterprise Story on a haunted Kalispell home; 1997 Gary Cummings Award, given to the top graduating broadcast student at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.

News Philosophy:
To work with a creative photojournalist weaving words, pictures and sound into accurate and compelling stories.

Birthplace:
Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, the first and oldest hospital in the country

Family:
Husband, Cory, a photojournalist. Mom, dad and two younger brothers, Chris and Adam, who live in Williamstown, N.J., where I grew up. They have an Airedale Terrier, Guy Fawkes, named for the Catholic revolutionary who tried to blow up the British Houses of Parliament!

Favorite Books & Movies:
Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun," a semi-autobiographical account of J.G. Ballard, a rich British kid (played by my teenage pin-up boy Christian Bale!) living in China during Japanese occupation, "Poltergeist" (They're heeereee!!!), Chevy Chase in "Funny Farm" (Cue the deer!), and "Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure" (There's no basement in the Alamo!).

I love Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby the Scrivener."

Right now, I'm reading every book I can on babies...yes, I'm pregnant! I'm hoping I might get to be on the news by having the Triangle's first baby of 2011...I'm due December 29th!!

But my all-time favorite book or movie - well, it's actually not a book or a movie at all - it's a radio show, "This American Life." Best storytelling ever! I download the free broadcasts to my iPod all the time.

Favorite Web Sites:
www.imdb.com - the ultimate movie database - check out the BMW Film Series called "The Hire" - all featuring great BMW chase scenes and ALL featuring hunky Clive Owen! www.cancer.org - the American Cancer Society...in my second week of work at WRAL, my mom was diagnosed with uterine cancer. It has since spread to her lungs and to her brain, but thanks to successful brain surgery with something called a Gamma Knife, radiation, chemotherapy and, more importantly, the MOST positive attitude in the world…she's doing wonderfully! My mom is amazing! She can't wait to be a grandmom!!

Likes Best About North Carolina:
The picture of me at 16 months old in a little pink bathing suit, crouching down to pick up sea shells in Ocracoke. The countless family summer vacations to the Outer Banks, catching waves with my little brothers and surfing at the Hatteras Lighthouse. And the star-lit night on the beach in Frisco, when my fiancé kneeled down on one knee to propose to me.

Most Memorable Assignments:
Covering a wartime deployment, I catapulted off the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier. I jumped out of a plane from 11,000 feet with the Army's Golden Knights. I soared through the clouds with the Navy Blue Angels (and passed out three times from the G-forces!) I plunged into the ocean depths with sailors of the nuclear fast-attack submarine USS Montpelier. Finally, I enjoyed 5 seconds of absolute horrible pain demonstrating the incapacitating power of the Norfolk police department's new taser guns!