A native of Victoria, British Columbia, Kerri-Lee's work has been honored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Society of Professional Journalists, Arizona Broadcasters Association, William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the National Headliner's Association.
Kerri-Lee came from Boston where she was a weekend anchor and reporter.
She was nominated for several New England Emmy's, and won first place in the "National Headliner" competition for her work during 9/11.
She was one of the only journalists to get inside Ground Zero, where she filed reports for two weeks on what was happening where the World Trade towers once stood.
Before moving to Boston, Kerri-Lee launched "SkyFOX" in Washington, D.C. at WTTG, as a breaking news helicopter reporter. She was invited to the White House to be part of a transportation summit with Vice-President Al Gore, and former Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater. Kerri-Lee also filled in as an anchor on the station's newscasts and reported from the ground.
She graduated from Arizona State University's acclaimed Walter Cronkite School of Journalism in 1995.
While there, she earned several collegiate awards, and was nationally ranked by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation for Television News and Radio Reporting.
Before leaving Arizona, she spent time at KTUC in Tucson, KTAR Radio in Phoenix , and former CBS affiliate, KSAZ-TV.
Kerri-Lee moved to the East Coast in 1995, to take a job as weekend anchor at the ABC affiliate in Salisbury, Md.
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