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Deena Centofanti (FOX2)
People always say, “You’ve got a great job” - and I think they’re right!Since walking in the door here at Fox 2 in 1997, I’ve had tremendous opportunities as a reporter; covering Pope John Paul II’s visit to St. Louis, heading to Washington D. C. for the impeachment of President Clinton and going to Los Angeles a few times to “rub elbows” with Fox superstars. (I was even supposed to make it into a scene of Ally McBeal as an extra, but they cut me out!)
In spite of all my travels, my favorite moments have happened right here in metro Detroit. As the Healthworks reporter, nothing makes me more proud than knowing we have helped to make a difference in someone’s life.
We call ourselves the Problem Solvers and we don’t take that lightly. When it comes to being healthy, so much of it is in your control and through Healthworks we’re always trying to empower you with great, user-friendly information.
When I'm not at work, I'm a very proud mother of three young children. My husband and I have a son and two daughters.
Look for “Deena’s Healthworks” during the week...and look for Charles Pugh and me on the weekend mornings from 7 - 10 a.m. Thanks for watching!
Erin Nicole (WXYZ)
Erin Nicole is honored to be working at WXYZ-TV alongside Alicia Smith, Erik Smith, Dave Rexroth and Dennis Neubacher. She is excited to help viewers start each day off right with her Traffic Tracker 7 reports.Erin grew up in Birmingham and began to study performing arts at the age of 7. After graduating from Mercy High School she traveled to New York to study singing and acting.
Working in the broadcast and entertainment industry has always been Erin’s dream. She broke into the business in 2002 as a reporter for UPN and CBS Detroit.
In 2004, Erin worked as the arena hostess for Detroit Pistons home games and also appeared on Pistons Weekly shows.
Rhonda Walker (WDIV)
Rhonda Walker came to Local 4 in July 2003 as a co-anchor of the Local 4 News Morning Powercast.After anchoring several other dayparts for the past year, Rhonda is excited to return to the morning news with Guy Gordon.
"Being hired to work at WDIV as a morning anchor is my proudest professional moment," Rhonda said. "As a child, my goal was to become a news anchor. I've always loved Carmen Harlan, so to finally achieve the goal as anchor and actually work at Local 4 is truly a dream come true."
Born in Detroit and raised in Lansing, Rhonda has built her career in the Great Lakes State, focusing most of her professional energy in Detroit, where she resides with her husband, Derrick.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in communications from Michigan State University in 1991, Rhonda found herself in the Motor City, working independently as an announcer and public speaker for trade shows, conventions, corporate videos and industrial films. She initiated her news career as a weather and traffic reporter for WJBK FOX 2 News morning show and noon newscasts, as well as served up style trends on the 10 p.m. newscast.
"I am fortunate enough to have the career I love and work in my home town," Rhonda said. "I also enjoy the opportunities this job gives me to be involved with the community I love."
One of those opportunities is an accomplishment Rhonda truly prides herself on: establishing the Rhonda Walker Foundation in February 2003. She says the foundation's mission is empowering inner city teen girls towards becoming strong, confident, successful and moral future leaders through career development and personal enrichment activities in a program called "Girls Into Women." The group's activities include "Camp I Can," a summer retreat that provides self-confidence building activities and sessions, national college tours, career development, mentoring and personal enrichment activities.
Kam Carman (FOX2)
I co-anchor Fox 2 News Morning from 5-6 a.m. with Alan Lee and do a segment called "In the News" from 6 to 9 a.m.I came to Detroit from The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia, where I worked for two-and-a-half years as an on-camera meteorologist. My first job out of college was at an NBC affiliate in Flagstaff, Arizona.
I grew up in Arizona, and while I miss the mild winters, I enjoy the four seasons of Michigan. I am the proud mother of toddler twins, Kellan and Jacquelyn, who keep me very busy, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Katrina Hancock (WDIV)
Katrina Hancock joined Bernie Smilovitz and the Local 4 sports department in December 2006.In addition to reporting on Detroit's always thriving sports scene on Local 4 News, Katrina also stepped into the role of host of the weekly Sports Final Edition airing Sunday nights at 11:30 p.m.
Katrina's career in the sports broadcasting business reads like a minor-league baseball player's.
She spent her first 17 months in Cheyenne, Wyo., at KGWN (Single-A), a year and a half at KSNT in Topeka, Kan. (Double-A), and the past three years at WTVG in Toledo, Ohio (Triple-A). She finally got called up to the major leagues in December of 2006 when she accepted the Weekend Sports Anchor/Reporter position here at Local 4. She's covered nearly every major sporting event in her six-year career.
Katrina graduated in 2000 from Bradley University with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Bachelor of Science in Communications. Before considering a career in television, she had aspirations of becoming a doctor. The obvious choice at the end of five years of college was sports broadcasting.
Katrina is originally from Kansas, but does not have a dog named Toto. She does own several pairs of red shoes, but none of them can get her home by clicking her heels three times.
Favorite restaurant: Chick-Fil-A
Favorite movie: The Ultimate Gift
Hobbies: traveling, golf, playing piano, swimming, and yoga.
Fun fact: Katrina is 6 feet 3 inches tall and played center for the Bradley Women's Basketball Team from 1997-2000.
Favorite quote: "There's No Place Like Home."
Alicia Smith (WXYZ)
From reporting live at the site of the World Trade Center for the 9/11 Anniversary in 2002 to helping cover Hurricane Jeanne as it roared onto Florida’s coast, Alicia has appreciated every opportunity to tell compelling stories throughout her career.Alicia joined WXYZ in January 2007 as co-anchor of Action News This Morning. Alicia also reports live from the field on all sorts of topics. In March 2007, Alicia hit the streets of Wayne County at night to reveal a prostitution rehabilitation program that’s turning around lives… one woman at a time. She was also honored to co-host WXYZ’s Education Town Hall Meeting in April 2007. Since arriving at WXYZ, Alicia had the opportunity of interviewing Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jerry Seinfeld, Angela Bassett, Democratic Presidential hopeful John Edwards and others.
She welcomed in summer fun while reporting live during Detroit River Days kick-off in June of 2007. She also helped lead Channel 7’s team in the Michigan Humane Society’s Mega March for Animals. Another passion of Alicia’s is running in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure every year. “Some of my dearest friends have battled breast cancer, so this race has special meaning for me-as it does for so many people.”
Recipient of an Emmy Award for a special report featuring two missing Michigan children’s cold cases, Alicia has also won honors from the Associated Press for a report uncovering the dangers of crumbling infrastructure in downtown Columbus, Georgia. In addition she won a Michigan Association of Broadcasters Award for Community Involvement for a series of reports entitled “Facing Racism: A Daily Battle.”
Alicia is passionate about her work and is equally passionate about the organizations she is involved in. She is a volunteer at Habitat for Humanity and the Michigan Humane Society and is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
A graduate of the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism where she majored in Broadcast News and minored in Political Science. Alicia was honored by the Young Alumni Council for the University of Georgia Alumni Society as the Senior Female of the Year.
Alicia spends her spare time checking off a long list of “Must-see” sites and “Must Do” adventures in Metro Detroit. She also enjoys ballroom dancing, running in local 5K races, walking, biking, movie-watching, and reading just about anything while sipping a nice, hot cup of Joe.
Kim Adams (WDIV)
After a one-year hiatus from Local 4, Kim Adams returned to Local 4 in December 2005.Kim wakes you up each morning on the Local 4 News Powercast 5:00 a.m until 7:00 a.m.
Kim had originally joined the station's Local4Casters weather team in 2002. The Mt. Clemens native has been part of the Detroit community for 25 years.
She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Oakland University. She is currently on the Alumni Association Board of Directors. She also received a master's degree from Wayne State University. In addition, she studied atmospheric science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School in Washington, D.C., and at Ohio State University. And, not one to quit growing, Kim is currently working on her Ph. D.
Becoming the first female meteorologist in Detroit television ranks as Kim's proudest professional achievement, along with earning her AMS seal.
Outside the station, Kim prides herself on her community involvement. Because of her work with the Special Olympics, Kim has earned the Media Award from the Association of Retarded Citizens.
She also works with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and was nominated for Woman of the Year by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Kim and her husband, a U.S. Navy lieutenant, have two children.
* Pets: two cats; Jake and Oscar
* Favorite book: "Catcher In The Rye"
* Favorite movie: "Christmas Vacation"
* Favorite restaurant: Rochester Chop House
* Favorite Web sites: Anything weather-related
* Hobbies: Sailing, skydiving, and shopping for baby toys!
Carolyn Clifford (WXYZ)
Carolyn Clifford co-anchors the noon and 5 p.m. newscasts with Robbie Timmons and the 7 p.m. with Stephen Clark.Carolyn is a native Detroiter who grew up on the northwest side of the city.
She’s the youngest of nine children and there are more than 40 grandchildren in her family, so she was thrilled to return to her hometown and work at the very station she grew up watching. "It’s like a dream come true," says Carolyn.
Carolyn has been working in broadcast journalism for more than 17 years and when she arrived at Channel 7 she brought 10 years of experience with her. By May 2002, Detroit began waking up with Carolyn when she joined the "Action News This Morning" team.
Anchoring is only one piece of Carolyn’s job. Through Carolyn’s Health Edge reports she works to keep Detroiters informed about the latest developments in medical science and the effects they have on our community.
Carolyn came to WXYZ-TV from WPGH-TV in Pittsburgh where she anchored the 10 p.m. newscast. Before that, she anchored the 10 p.m. news at WLFL-TV in Raleigh, N.C. where she worked her way up from weekend anchor and medical reporter. Carolyn also worked at the CBS affiliates in both Orlando, Florida and Lansing, but got her real start in news at a small radio station in Lansing.
The YWCA of Western Wayne County has named Carolyn the 2007 Woman of the year. She was also honored this year by the Detroit City Council and Detroit Urban League for her community service and volunteer work in the community. Carolyn has received several awards for her reporting and anchoring. She is a nine-time Emmy winner, including three Emmy Awards for Best News Anchor.
She has also received awards from the Associated Press, the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, and was given a special honor by the Karmanos Cancer Institute as one of their "Heroes of Breast Cancer."
Before Carolyn decided she wanted to work in news, she had dreams of dancing on Broadway. She has danced her whole life and was in the Michigan State Dance Company and the MSU Motion Dance Team before she graduated.
Carolyn loves speaking at area schools and community organizations hoping to make a difference in the lives of children. A quote Carolyn strives to live by is by Martin Luther King Junior, 1963 “ The ultimate measure of a man or woman is not where he or she stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he or she stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Carolyn is a devoted mother and most of her time away from the station is spent with her family, whether its going to her son’s football or basketball games, her daughter's dance recitals, or simply spending a Saturday night at the movies. “Sunday is the most important day of the week because it’s a day devoted to our family.”
Mara MacDonald (WDIV)
Mara MacDonald knows Detroit. After all, she grew up here.Mara became a member of the Local 4 News team in March 2004.
Born and raised in Michigan, she honed her skills in television mostly outside of the metro Detroit area.
Mara's first job in television was as a producer with WKBD-TV in Southfield. She then took on the challenge of becoming a reporter in Lansing and Richmond, Va. Most recently, she served as lead reporter for WITI-TV in Milwaukee, Wis.
Her outstanding achievement in television reporting earned her an Associated Press Award for "Best Spot News" coverage in 1998.
Mara received a bachelor of arts degree in diplomacy and foreign affairs from Miami University in Ohio.
Shay Ryan (WXYZ)
Shay Ryan's love for the outdoors transcends all that she does. Reporting on one of Mother Nature's most fickle aspects - the weather - is no exception.Shay joined the Doppler 7 Weather Team in October of 2002. Since then she has relied upon her scientific expertise to deliver the "Doppler 7" forecast to the Noon, 6 & 11pm on Action News Weekend.
Shay has worked in several Midwest markets including; Lansing, Saginaw and Toledo, and loves the challenge of predicting the ever changing Michigan weather.
Shay has seen her share of dangerous weather. During Hurricane Floyd, she was part of the largest peacetime evacuation in U.S. history. Positioned in the Emergency Management shelter, she reported key safety updates to the local community. She tracked the storm's path and told viewers what precautionary measures would best protect them.
While Shay loves her job reporting the weather, she didn't always want to a meteorologist. Shay says she saw herself in, "Several different types of careers," while growing up. "But this was the best place for me, creatively and intellectually."
A native of South Florida, Shay received her Bachelor's degree in Telecommunication from the University of Florida. She went on to gain a Master's degree from Mississippi State University in Geosciences (Broadcast Meteorology).
When not enjoying the outdoors with her husband, canoeing and visiting the Metro Parks, she loves working on her new house. Shay says she loves to take a hands-on approach to interior designing, and always has her television tuned to HGTV (when she's not watching Channel 7!)
Shay also loves to cook, even adventurously. "There is nothing I won't try cooking (or eating) at least once," she'll tell you.
*All biographies from their respective employer websites.
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