Born in Queens and raised on Long Island, I knew I was destined to be a town crier of some sort. As a kid, I had a strange fascination with listening to all-news radio and reading Tiger Beat magazines.
With my journalism degree from the University of Maryland in tow, I hit the streets of New York where I toiled away in book publishing with Macmillan, radio marketing at CBS and then…TV. Thanks to some mentoring from the Asian American Journalists Association, I landed my first two big TV reporting jobs – at WNYE-TV in Brooklyn and New York 1 in Manhattan where I met my husband WABC-TV reporter Marcus Solis. From there I got to work the red carpet as an intrepid entertainment reporter at E! and MTV. Soon MetroChannel came calling and I was covering the exciting food and entertainment scenes for them. That led to a coveted Fashion Week hosting gig for “Full Frontal Fashion.” After 8 glorious years of fashion reporting, I switched gears somewhat joining PBS as an arts & culture correspondent for the award-winning “NYC-Arts.”
Still proud to call New York home. Somewhere in between, I got married, had 2 girls and rescued a dog. And now I’m here. I love cookbooks, long walks along the beach and anything by INXS. Thanks for having me.