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September 18, 2008


Speaker: Allison Alexander
ABC6 News Anchor
Topic: Smart Women in Tough Times

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Allison Alexander co-anchors ABC 6
News at 6 and 11, along with ABC 6
News First at Four.

Allison joins ABC-6 from WOIO, the
CBS affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio
where she co-anchored the morning
and noon newscasts. Prior to that,
she was an anchor/reporter in
Tucson, Arizona.  She also worked as
an anchor and reporter in Texas,
Oklahoma and Louisiana.  An award
winning journalist, Allison's work has
earned her recognition by the
Associated Press, and many local
organizations.  
While working in Arizona,she and her photographer were the only
television crew ever given full access to the Arizona State Prison
Complex--including the death chambers.  Allison's story of a  a
notorious killer fighting for the legalization of organ donations by
death row inmates and a child waiting for a life-saving donor,
earned her the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award.

With over a decade of TV experience, Allison has covered the
gamut. She has reported on racial tensions in the south, drug and
immigration issues along the Mexico border, tornadoes, wildfires,
presidential races, the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy, and Allison
has even worked the red carpet at the Grammy Awards!

She is a graduate of the acclaimed Walter Cronkite School of
Journalism at Arizona state University.  While there she received a
Society of Professional Journalists award for her reporting and the
Walter Cronkite scholarship for excellence in journalism.

Allison enjoys working with children's charities and is involved with
St. Jude Children's Hospital, The March of Dimes, and the Epilepsy
Foundation. She lives in Providence with her husband Craig.

  
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