1. Sheinelle Marie Jones was born on April 19,1978 and is an American journalist and a news anchor and correspondent for NBC News.
10 Facts About Sheinelle Jones
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Sheinelle Jones is one of the hosts of the third hour of Today on weekdays.
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Sheinelle Jones is the host of the educational nature program Wild Child broadcast on The More You Know block on NBC.
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Sheinelle Marie Jones was born April 19,1978, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Sheinelle Jones's father is US District Court Judge C Darnell Jones II.
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Sheinelle Jones attended Wichita Brooks Middle Magnet School and Wichita Heights High School, both in Wichita, Kansas, and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she pledged the historically Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha.
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Sheinelle Jones was at the Philadelphia station for more than nine years.
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Sheinelle Jones joined Today on October 4,2014, as part of Weekend Today.
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In February 2020, Sheinelle Jones had surgery to remove lesions from her vocal cord and thus could not speak at all for two weeks; she remained out of work for six weeks.
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In 2007, Sheinelle Jones married Uche Ojeh, whom she met at Northwestern University, and they have three children, sons Kayin and Uche, and daughter Clara.