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Host Natalie Brunell sits down with fitness power couple Mike O'Hearn & Mona Muresan. Mike is a bodybuilder, personal trainer, actor, and model who has been featured on hundreds of magazine covers, was Fitness Model of the Year seven times, and is a four-time Mr. Universe title holder. His partner Mona is a first generation immigrant from Romania, a famous fitness model, figure competitor and Ms. Universe title holder, a former magazine Editor-in-Chief and entrepreneur.
Mike & Mona share their inspiring origin stories, career paths, and how they built a Titan-strong relationship.
Follow Mike on Instagram at @MikeOHearn and Mona at @MonaMuresan.
To learn more visit https://mikeohearn.com.
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Logan Hollowell is a fine jewelry designer, an alchemist and a social media influencer.
Her celestial-inspired creations are handmade in Los Angeles using 14k and 18k recycled gold, conflict-free diamonds and rare precious stones sourced sustainably around the world.
Her pieces are meant to become instant heirlooms that can be passed down for generations by the Modern Goddess. Her jewelry has adorned celebrities like Rihanna, Jennifer Lawrence, Jenna Dewan and Alexis Ren.
Check out her collection at LoganHollowell.com and subscribe to her podcast, The Diamond Mind.
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Rachel Brown is the weekend morning co-anchor and a general assignment reporter for ABC7 Eyewitness News. She joined the station in June of 2019 and is thrilled to become a member of the Los Angeles' #1 news team.
Rachel is a native of Chicago's South Side. She received a bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Illinois. From there she went on to pursue a master's degree in communication management, and graduated from Northwestern University one year later.
She landed her first reporting job not far from home in South Bend, Indiana. There, she received her first Emmy nomination for her reporting during a winter storm.
On the search for warmer weather, Rachel's next job took her south to Charlotte, North Carolina. She joined NBC Charlotte and served as a weekday evening anchor and nightside reporter for three years.
Outside of the newsroom Rachel is passionate about kids. During her time in Charlotte she volunteered weekly at Levine Children's Hospital. Working as a Child Life Specialist, Rachel's goal was to make children feel as happy and as comfortable as possible during their stay.Rachel recently launched a talent consulting company to train people hoping to get media jobs or polish their on-air presentation. You can learn more at TopTalentMedia.com.
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Dr. Evan Antin is Instagram’s most-followed veterinarian with over 1.3 million followers. Evan went viral after being featured in People Magazine ’s "Sexiest Man Alive" issue in 2014, and again in 2016 & 2017. Dubbed “the sexiest veterinarian,” he took the Internet by storm.
He recently released his book “World Wide Vet,” which covers his life from young wildlife/animal super enthusiast all the way to his veterinary and wildlife conservation work around the world.
His Summer, 2020 FacebookTV show “Tusks To Tails” with ‘Seeker’ (under Group-9) is dedicated to educating viewers about some of our planet’s most unique animals and what wild adaptations they have to contribute to their success. Seeker’s digital platform is all about bringing accurate, modern science to followers/subscribers/viewers and this show is no exception, delivering fascinating, fun, wild information while incorporating a variety of Evan’s experience with wildlife so far in his professional career.
In February 2019, Evan’s new television show Evan Goes Wild premiered on Animal Planet. In the show, viewers watch Evan chase his wildlife bucket list as he swims alongside humpback whales in Tahiti, explores caves with bats in the Philippines, and tangles with crocodiles in the Yucatan. Evan brings his passion and love for all wildlife to each adventure where, as a practicing veterinarian, he also lends a helping hand to animals in need along the way.
In 2018 Evan debuted HAPPY PET, his pet wellness brand that is available online . The products use natural and eco-friendly ingredients and are available in three convenient categories—Clean, Fresh, and Active.
Evan will be launching his first book “World Wild Vet” in October 2020 with his publisher Henry Holt (under Macmillan). This book covers Evan’s life from young wildlife/animal super enthusiast all the way to his veterinary and wildlife conservation work around the world.
Evan originally hails from Kansas City, Kansas where he grew up spending the majority of his childhood in search of native wildlife including snakes, turtles and insects. He went on to study evolutionary and ecological biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and spent multiple semesters abroad in Australia and Tanzania to learn more about their respective ecosystems and fauna.
In addition to his love for cats and dogs, Evan’s passions lie in exotic animal medicine and interacting with exotic animals in their native habitats around the world. For more than a decade Evan worked with wildlife in locations such as Central America, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Eastern and Southern Africa, South East Asia and a variety of North American ecosystems.
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Angela Martini was born in Shkoder, Albania during a time of political instability as communism started to dissolve in the region. Her early childhood was plagued by kidnapping attempts, neighborhood violence, and at one point, a short stay in a refugee camp. Concerned for her safety, Angela's mother sent her to Switzerland to live with her father at the age of ten. After leaving Albania, she would go on to live a lonely childhood, often feeling neglected and isolated from the outside world. During these years, Angela dreamed of building a better life--a dream that often seemed impossibly out of reach. At the age of 21, in hopes of pursuing a professional modeling career, Angela boarded a one-way flight to Miami. The very next day, she was signed by Front Management Agency in Miami, and only 3 months later, by Elite Model Management New York--one of the world's premier modeling agencies. She quickly started booking campaigns with retail giants such as JCPenney and Macy's. In 2010, Angela was crowned Miss Universe Albania. A few weeks later, without a hairstylist or makeup artist, she placed sixth in the Miss Universe pageant, the highest finish for any Miss Albania in history. This platform catapulted her to celebrity status throughout Europe and allowed her to cement a successful modeling career. To date, she has been featured in GQ, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Maxim, and Esquire, to name a few. Throughout the years, Angela has had various business ventures, including the building of a successful swimwear line that was featured in major events such as Miami Fashion Week. Despite the glitz and glamour that surrounds her, Angela's outlook on life has evolved. She is focused on transforming herself into a person that reveals her soul and deep sense of spirituality. Through her movie production debut in 2020, with the short films Fusion and A Way Out, Angela combines fantasy, spirituality, and humanity to piece together complex themes into cohesive narratives. In her memoir "Love. Hope. Light." she commands the attention of the reader through her vulnerability, but at the same time, her resounding strength. She reveals an intimate part of herself through her life experiences and the difficult lessons she learned along the way. Those lessons--some more painful than others--combined with her mother being the outstanding role model that she was, is what molded Angela into the incredible woman she is today. The lived experiences revealed in this book inspired her to become a certified life coach in 2017. In love with her new path, Angela hopes to look beyond the vanities of this world and looks forward to writing the next chapter of her life--one that will certainly take the world by storm.
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Jennifer Lahmers is co-host of the syndicated entertainment show Extra and is an Emmy-nominated journalist based in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Extra, Jennifer was one of the main morning anchors on FOX 5's Good Day Wake Up in New York City.
An Ohio native, Jennifer grew up always wanting to work in news and television thanks to a love for creative writing. She talks about getting her on-camera start in Jackson, Tennessee, where a boss ended up making a big impact on her career by demoting - yes demoting her, and teaching her you can achieve anything you set your mind to. Jennifer jumped from her first market to Hartford, Connecticut before taking a huge leap of faith by applying to reporter gigs in NYC.
Jennifer recently launched a relationship podcast called Ex Appeal and you can follow her on social media at @JennLahmers.
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(Via ABC News) Maggie Rulli is a multi-format ABC News correspondent based in the London bureau where she covers stories all over the world.
Maggie was on the fire line in Australia during the heat of some of the worst wildfires in the country’s history, and also on the ground during France’s historic country wide strikes and riots. In the Galapagos she reported on tourism’s environmental impact and in Chile’s Atacama Desert she showed us the world’s largest array of telescopes.
While closely covering the royals, Maggie has been front and center on multiple royal tours. She visited South Africa and Angola with Prince Harry and Megan as well as traveled with Prince William and Kate to Pakistan. She was even there the day Harry and Megan said “I Do.”
Prior to joining the London bureau, Maggie was based in New York, where she covered the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, the Parkland shooting and the California wildfires. Before that Maggie covered the 2016 presidential debates and President Trump’s inauguration while also reporting from the Supreme Court, Congress and the White House.
Prior to ABC News, Maggie was a Channel One News reporter and covered the dramatic aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks, the Iran nuclear deal negotiations and Cuba’s renewed diplomatic relations with the United States. Closer to home she has interviewed first lady Michelle Obama, taken an in-depth look at youth homelessness in America, and reported on the state of nuclear weapons in the U.S.
Maggie graduated summa cum laude from Boston College. Wherever she’s living, she promises to always forever remain faithful to her hometown sports teams, the Boston College Eagles and the Red Sox. You can follow her at @MaggieRulli on social media.
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Hear the inspiring career path of NBC/MSNBC's Jo Ling Kent.
Via @NBC: Jo Ling Kent is a correspondent at NBC News covering business, technology and the economy. Her reporting appears across all platforms of NBC News and MSNBC and she is an integral part of NBC News’ robust Business & Tech Unit, reporting on TODAY and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
Previously, Kent was a reporter and podcast host at Fox Business Network and an investigative reporter at NBC Connecticut, where she was a member of the reporting team awarded a Peabody for coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting.
Kent reported for NBC News on the campaign trail in 2012, covering the presidential election as an embed reporter. For five years, Kent worked in China: first as a Fulbright Scholar focusing on women's rights and legal aid, then as a Beijing-based journalist for ABC News and CNN.
Kent has earned two master’s degrees in international affairs from the London School of Economics and Peking University, along with a bachelor’s degree from Rice University. She's from Minnesota, fluent in Mandarin and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Kent also serves on the board of YMCA Twin Cities Center for Youth Voice. She's on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok at @jolingkent.
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Welcome Back to Career Stories Season 3.
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Michael is doggedly curious about the lives of others, and is passionate about reaching new audiences craving deeply-reported, long-form storytelling captured with cinematic style. Since joining ABC10, he has brought his viewers on journeys to places like Afghanistan, the US/Mexico border, Puerto Rico, and into California’s deadliest wildfires, telling the stories of those threatened by war, natural disaster, political repression, and gang violence. His ability to produce, report on-camera, shoot cinema-quality visuals, write, and edit his documentaries have allowed him to work using a small footprint and gain exclusive access to subjects who may have otherwise turned away bigger crews.
In 2019, Michael won four Emmy Awards, including outstanding achievement in the documentary category for his film, “Afghanistan: What is Winning?”, which he solely produced, filmed, and edited. The documentary examined how, after 17 years of war, President Donald Trump’s South Asia strategy was playing out on the ground, the impact the war has had on both Afghan civilians and Americans back home, and the future of U.S. involvement in the country.
In 2018, he won three Emmys, including outstanding achievement in video journalism; as directory of photography for the documentary “Puerto Rico Rises”; and as a reporter in the ABC10 special “Embedded: Northern California Wildfires”. “Puerto Rico Rises” also won the Walter Cronkite Award for Enterprise storytelling. Michael was also part of a team of four reporters awarded a Regional Edward R. Murrow for their coverage of California’s wildfires in 2017.
Before joining ABC10, Michael worked as a multimedia breaking news reporter for The Indianapolis Star from 2013-2016. Using innovative digital reporting techniques, he elevated the paper to the number one source of breaking crime news in the city. To accompany many of his stories, he produced breaking news videos and short documentaries for the paper's digital audience, one of which screened at the Indiana Black Expo Film Festival in 2016. He also used his role as a breaking news reporter to launch several long-form projects, including an examination of the police department’s crisis intervention team, the state’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis, and an investigation into the treatment of female prisoners suffering from mental health issues.
Michael has also frequently produced, shot, and edited video packages for AJ+, Al Jazeera’s digital news vertical.
Additional print, photo and video work have appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, The Atlantic, Reuters, The Weather Channel, Chicago Social Magazine, Denver’s Westword, The Lexington Herald-Leader, The Louisville Courier-Journal, Newcity and more.
Michael was born in Detroit, MI, and raised in its suburbs. After a short stint in Los Angeles nursing an unsuccessful acting career, he moved to Boston and received his bachelor's degree in print and multimedia journalism from Emerson College. When he’s not writing or behind the camera for work, he’s often traveling the world with his fiancé, albeit still behind the camera.
You can follow Michael at @MichaelAnthonyAdams. Visit http://www.michaelanthonyadams.com to learn more.
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Ashley Brewer is the weekend sports anchor and reporter at ABC7 Eyewitness News in Los Angeles. She also co-hosted 'The Bachelor: Winter Games' alongside Chris Harrison.
Ashley attended the University of Southern California, where she was a member of the varsity women's swimming team. She also competed in the 2012 Olympic Trials, where she swam the 100-meter backstroke. Ashley also worked as an intern in the ABC7 sports department in the spring of 2014.
After graduating from USC, Ashley became a college football sideline reporter for Cox 7 Arizona. She then became the weekend sports anchor at KGUN-9, the ABC affiliate in Tucson, Arizona. In her two years at KGUN, Ashley covered all professional and college sports, as well as Super Bowl XLIX and the 2016 College Football National Championship game.
She attributes her love of sports to growing up in a family of five Division-I athletes. Her oldest brother, Charles, is a right-handed pitcher for the Diamondbacks. Her brother Chase played baseball at UCLA, and her younger brother Connor is a quarterback at the University of Virginia. Her younger sister, Abby, played sand volleyball at USC. Ashley's mother, Deborah Pyburn Brewer, was a news anchor for the CBS station in Phoenix for almost 10 years.
Follow Ashley at @ABC7Ashley.
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Whit Johnson is currently a co-anchor on Good Morning America Weekend and an ABC News correspondent based in New York. His reports can be seen across multiple ABC broadcasts including Good Morning America, World News Tonight, 20/20, and Nightline.
Since joining ABC News, he has reported on and field anchored coverage of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in October 2018 that left 11 people dead. He also covered the groundbreaking arrest of the suspected "Golden State Killer", the pivotal 2018 midterm elections, the historic volcano eruption on Hawaii's Big Island, and the case of Mollie Tibbets, the University of Iowa student who mysteriously vanished and was later found murdered.
Whit was previously a morning anchor for "Today in LA" on KNBC-TV, which won the Golden Mike award for "Best Daytime News Broadcast" in 2017. In 2013, he earned a Los Angeles Emmy for a multi-part investigation into reported scams at auto-repair shops.
During his time at KNBC, Whit reported on two Olympics including the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia and the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He co-hosted the station’s Emmy winning special report of the Opening Ceremony in Rio.
He also reported on the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack, the 2013 shooting at LAX and the standoff between killer Christopher Dorner and the LAPD – anchoring live coverage for nine straight hours.
Before joining KNBC, he was a Washington-based CBS News correspondent and fill-in anchor reporting on national news, the White House and Capitol Hill. During his time at the network, he covered then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on several stops across the Middle East and interviewed her minutes after news broke that Muammar Gaddafi had been killed.
Whit was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a graduate from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in television and radio broadcasting.
You can follow him at @WhitJohnson.
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Carissa Culiner is a co-host on E!’s “Daily Pop,” a one-hour live television program that delivers fun, insightful and relatable conversations centered around the biggest, most fascinating entertainment and pop culture stories of the day. “Daily Pop” guest highlights include Jared Leto, Tracee Ellis Ross, Meghan Trainor, Eva Longoria, NeNe Leakes, Julianne Hough and Derek Hough. Carissa is also an on-air correspondent for “E! News” covering Hollywood’s biggest events and red carpets.
Carissa started her career in country radio co-hosting the show “Scotty & Carissa in the Morning” on the award-winning station, Clear 99 (KCLR-FM). While hosting, she was a recipient of the “CMA Small Market Personality of the Year” award and the NAB Marconi Radio Award for “Small Market Personality of the Year.” Carissa lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Shanon and their son, Chase.
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Lauren Zima is an entertainment host, producer and reporter for Entertainment Tonight and ETOnline. She was recently promoted to Entertainment Tonight Correspondent and also hosts the popular Bachelor Nation recap show, "Roses and Rosé" (yes, she has found a way to drink wine at work)!
Lauren grew up in the Midwest, attended Mizzou and first moved to LA after college to pursue acting. But a loss in her family sparked a shift in her path, causing her to re-evaluate her priorities and her outlook on the future. Lauren eventually made a full-time transition to journalism back in the Midwest, taking a job with online news startup Newsy. Little did she know that job would lead her back to LA and her big break at ET.
You can follow her at @LaurenZima.
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Jason Kennedy serves as a co-host for “E! News, ” covering Hollywood’s biggest red carpets and awards shows with recent interview highlights that include Jennifer Lopez, Nicole Kidman, Kelly Clarkson, Jimmy Fallon and Tim Tebow. Jason also hosts Live From the Red Carpet at the Emmy’s, Billboard Awards, American Music Awards, as well as E!’s Oscar and Golden Globe coverage.
In 2017, Jason’s on-air work helped “E! News” earn a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Entertainment News Program. The show has been nominated for 5 Daytime Emmy Awards and he is known for getting stars to open up on the daily flagship news show. Jason was also named “One of the Top 10 Next Broadcasters of Our Generation” by the Los Angeles Times in 2014.
Jason can also be seen regularly on NBC’s “Today.” He was also the voice of American Idol Rewind on Fox, hosted the primetime show Dance Machine on ABC. Prior to joining “E! News,” Kennedy served as correspondent for the TV Guide Network.
Kennedy attended The University of Miami where he received several awards including the Associated Press Award for Best News Feature in the State of Florida.
You can follow Jason on Twitter at @JasonKennedy1 and on Instagram at @thejasonkennedy.
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Janai Norman is co-anchor of ABC World News Now and America This Morning, and a correspondent for Good Morning America.
Janai began her career with ABC News in 2011 as an intern with NewsOne in NY. She next moved on to work at local stations in Columbia, MO, Tulsa, OK, and Orlando where she covered a wide range of stories as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor, including the Moore tornado and the Pulse nightclub shooting.
In 2016 Janai rejoined ABC News as a multi-platform reporter in Washington, DC covering the Trump administration, Capitol Hill, and other breaking news stories for local ABC affiliates. Her work has also appeared on weekend GMA and World News.
With news breaking around the clock every day, our overnight team is more than ever a key part of our multi-platform, 24/7 line-up. Janai is a vibrant, talented journalist and she will be an incredible partner alongside Kendis. I’m excited for our overnight audience to get to know her.You can follow Janai on Instagram at @janai.norman and on Twitter at @janai.
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Seth Moulton is a father, husband, Iraq War Veteran, and a Congressman running for President of the United States in 2020. He now serves the 6th District of Massachusetts, with an office just ten minutes from where he grew up, but he first began serving our country when he was 22.
It was the minister at his college church at Harvard who inspired Seth to serve. “It’s not enough to just support those who serve,” Rev Peter Gomes said, “You have to go out and do something yourself.” That advice resonated with Seth, and he decided to join the Marines.
9/11 happened a few months after his graduation, and little more than a year later, Seth was an infantry platoon commander in the first company of Marines to enter Baghdad in 2003. Despite his disagreements with the war, he insisted on returning for a total of four combat deployments so nobody would have to go in his place.
Seth went to business school on the GI Bill and worked in the private sector in Texas building the country’s first high-speed railway, but missed the sense of purpose he had in the Marines. Serving in Iraq with some of the best Americans he has ever met—while feeling let down and left behind by the politicians in Washington who sent them there—inspired Seth to run for Congress in 2014. He took on a nine-term incumbent backed by the party establishment, calling for a new generation of leadership in Congress, and overcame a 54-point deficit to win. He’s been keeping the promises of that campaign ever since.
In just three short terms in Congress, Seth has worked tirelessly to guarantee good-paying jobs for hard-working people—helping revitalize the biggest city in his district, the old factory city of Lynn, by organizing state and local leaders of all backgrounds. He’s become a leading voice on foreign policy and national security, serving on the Armed Services Committee and holding the Pentagon accountable while introducing bills to transform our national defense and combat foreign influence in America’s elections. And determined to lead by example, he held more town hall meetings in the 114th Congress than any other Democrat in the House or Senate—making sure that the voices of his constituents would be heard in Washington. He’s also fought for veterans health care while upholding his promise to continue getting his own care at the VA.
After the election in 2016, Seth recognized that America needs leaders who have faced challenges more difficult than losing an election or standing up to President Trump. So he used his organization, Serve America, to help change Washington by electing more service-driven leaders to Congress. Seth and his team mentored the candidates, raised millions of dollars for them, and campaigned alongside them in tough, Republican-held districts across the country. On election night, that hard work paid off: twenty-one of Serve America’s candidates won, accounting for half of all Democratic pickups in the House and flipping districts that voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016.
Seth lives in Salem, Massachusetts with his wife, Liz, and his daughter, Emmy.
For more information, visit SethMoulton.com.
Special thanks to Ignited Spaces Hollywood for hosting this conversation. To book a space visit www.IgnitedSpaces.com.
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Anthony Scaramucci is an American financier, entrepreneur and political figure. He is the founder and co-managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, a global alternative investments firm.
As part of the first generation of his family to attend college, Scaramucci graduated from the Tufts University and Harvard Law School before embarking on a successful career in the financial services industry. In November 2016, Scaramucci was named to President-Elect Trump’s Presdential Transition Team Executive Committee. In June 2017, he was named the Chief Strategy Officer of the Export-Import Bank. He served as the White House Communications Director for 11 days in July 2017.
In 2016, Scaramucci was ranked #85 in Worth Magazine’s Power 100: The Most Powerful People in Global Finance. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year-New York” Award in the Financial Services category. He is a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Scaramucci was born and raised on Long Island, New York, where he still resides today.
*This interview was recorded on 7/26/19.
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Lilia Luciano is an award-winning investigative journalist, documentary film director, producer and public speaker. Lilia has a unique style of reporting that was developed over a decade of video storytelling.
In 2018, her documentary 'Puerto Rico Rises,' which she directed and produced for ABC Sacramento, earned her a regional Emmy Award. Her coverage of the Northern California Wildfires of 2018 received a regional Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuous Coverage. In 2013 Lilia was also awarded a GLAAD award for her coverage of homophobia in U.S. Hispanic media.
She is the director and producer of 'Wars of Others,' an HBO Latino film about the social, environmental, health and security consequences of the war on drugs in Colombia. She also worked as a host on several VICE platforms, including VICE News, VICELAND and Munchies. She is the founder of CoInspire, a video and event platform that explores values of entrepreneurship.
Lilia sits on the Advisory Board of the United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign to promote access to quality education and the well-being of girls worldwide. She has been a speaker and moderator at multiple tech conferences around the world, including The Oslo Freedom Forum, TEDx, Nexus Global Youth Summit, SIME and Reinvention.
As a national NBC News correspondent, reporting in both English and Spanish, Lilia led coverage of a number of high-profile news stories and reported for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, MSNBC, The Weather Channel, CNBC and Telemundo.
Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Lilia is fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
She graduated from the University of Miami with degrees in Economics and Broadcast Journalism. She previously attended Tufts University until 2003, when she made her transition from pre-med studies to journalism.
For more on Lilia visit www.LiliaLuciano.com and follow her @LiliaLuciano.
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David Begnaud is the lead national correspondent for CBS This Morning based in New York. He joined CBS News in 2015 and his stories can be seen across all CBS News broadcasts and platforms including CBS Evening News, 48 Hour, CBS Sunday Morning and CBSN. David's reporting has earned him some of journalism's most prestigious awards.
Among David's most notable assignments: his coverage of Puerto Rico's protests for governor Riccardo Roselló to resign and Hurricane Maria when it hit the island in October 2017. He spent more time covering Puerto Rico's recovery than any other network news correspondent, traveling to the island countless times, and breaking numerous significant stories. His distinctive, unmatched reporting resulted in government action, and throughout the crisis, he delivered sustained coverage on all platforms -- especially on social media. His coverage of Hurricane Maria earned him the prestigious George Polk award for public service in 2018. The award, as the nominating committee states, places "a premium on investigative work that is original, resourceful, and thought provoking." David also received Radio Television Digital News Association's First Amendment Leadership Award his for significant contribution to the protection of the First Amendment and freedom of the press.
At CBS News, David has covered major news stories around the world including the shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, and the devastating earthquake that hit Ecuador in April of 2016 leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured. In the summer of 2017, he covered Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Hurricane Irma in Florida, and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. David's coverage of important national and international stories is also featured prominently on CBSN, CBS News' 24/7 streaming news service.
Prior to CBS, David covered a wide variety of national breaking news from weather to crime for several news organizations. Previously, he created and reported for "Newsbreaker" at ORA-TV, a social media platform for current events and breaking news and was a contributing correspondent for "Entertainment Tonight," the No. 1 syndicated entertainment newsmagazine in the world.
His career began in local news at KLFY-TV as an unpaid "teen reporter" while in high school, in his home state of Louisiana. Upon graduation, KLFY-TV hired him as a full-time reporter. He later became the weekend morning and evening news anchor. During the week he attended college, and graduated from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette in 2005.
You can follow him at @DavidBegnaud.
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