An American TV journalist, born in East Parsonfield, Maine, USA. In 1992, she graduated from Sacopee Valley High School in Hiram, Maine. She obtained a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism in 1996 from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. She also earned a Certificate of Contemporary Europe after her political studies in Strasbourg, France. In September 2003, she joined MSNBC after working as a weekend anchor and general assignment reporter. She is known for Early Today (1999), and Nightly Business Report (2019).