1. Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was born on February 9,1969 and is an American journalist, board member and former politician.
27 Facts About Michelle Caruso-Cabrera
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was CNBC's first Latina anchor at and first Chief International Correspondent regular and is a CNBC contributor, where she has worked for more than twenty years.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination for the 2021 New York City Comptroller election.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was born in Dayton, Ohio, and raised in Nashua, New Hampshire.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera's mother is a Cuban immigrant and her grandparents were Italian and Cuban immigrants.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts, paying her tuition in part with the help of a National Merit Scholarship and her earnings from her first summer job as a waitress at Pizza Hut.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was a researcher and later a special projects producer for Univision from 1991 to 1994.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera then worked as a reporter for WTSP in St Petersburg, Florida, from 1994 to 1998.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera joined CNBC in August 1998, working there until January 2019, and became the network's first Hispanic anchor in 2001.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera reported from all over the world including places such as Iran, Ukraine, Cuba, Russia and Israel.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera has interviewed people such as Pitbull, Lucas Papademos, Juan Manuel Santos and Nayib Bukele.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera co-anchored Power Lunch with Bill Griffeth from 2002 to 2003.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was promoted to co-presenter of Power Lunch in 2009, and remained in that position until 2013.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera rejoined Power Lunch for another stint as co-presenter in 2016.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera left CNBC in September 2018 to join the board of directors of a Dallas, Texas, financial firm.
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In 2010, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera wrote a book called You Know I'm Right: More Prosperity, Less Government.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera filed official paperwork on February 10,2020, challenging freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the Democratic primary for New York's 14th congressional district, which covers portions of the Bronx and Queens.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was endorsed by what Politico called the "traditionally conservative" United States Chamber of Commerce, a business lobbying group that generally backs Republicans.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera ran in the general election on the ticket of the Serve America Movement, a party with 349 registered members in New York.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera ran for election in the 2021 New York City Comptroller race.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera ran in the Democratic primary against among others NYS Senator Brian Benjamin, entrepreneur and former US Marine Zach Iscol, NYC Councilmember Brad Lander, NYS Senator Kevin Parker, and NYS Assemblymember David Weprin.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera finished 3rd in the 10-person race, making it to the second-to-last round.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera won an Emmy Award for a five-part series on children with AIDS.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera received a Broadcast Journalist of the Year award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics by Hispanic magazine.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera sits on the International Advisory Board of the Instituto Empressa, and serves as President of the Board of Directors of Ballet Hispanico in NYC.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of NY, and the Latino Corporate Directors Association.