Career Stories

Ashley Brewer is the weekend sports anchor and reporter at ABC7 Eyewitness News in Los Angeles. She also co-hosted 'The Bachelor: Winter Games' alongside Chris Harrison.

Ashley attended the University of Southern California, where she was a member of the varsity women's swimming team. She also competed in the 2012 Olympic Trials, where she swam the 100-meter backstroke. Ashley also worked as an intern in the ABC7 sports department in the spring of 2014. After graduating from USC, Ashley became a college football sideline reporter for Cox 7 Arizona. She then became the weekend sports anchor at KGUN-9, the ABC affiliate in Tucson, Arizona. In her two years at KGUN, Ashley covered all professional and college sports, as well as Super Bowl XLIX and the 2016 College Football National Championship game. She attributes her love of sports to growing up in a family of five Division-I athletes. Her oldest brother, Charles, is a right-handed pitcher for the Diamondbacks. Her brother Chase played baseball at UCLA, and her younger brother Connor is a quarterback at the University of Virginia. Her younger sister, Abby, played sand volleyball at USC. Ashley's mother, Deborah Pyburn Brewer, was a news anchor for the CBS station in Phoenix for almost 10 years.

Follow Ashley at @ABC7Ashley.

Whit Johnson is currently a co-anchor on Good Morning America Weekend and an ABC News correspondent based in New York. His reports can be seen across multiple ABC broadcasts including Good Morning America, World News Tonight, 20/20, and Nightline.

Since joining ABC News, he has reported on and field anchored coverage of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in October 2018 that left 11 people dead. He also covered the groundbreaking arrest of the suspected "Golden State Killer", the pivotal 2018 midterm elections, the historic volcano eruption on Hawaii's Big Island, and the case of Mollie Tibbets, the University of Iowa student who mysteriously vanished and was later found murdered.

Whit was previously a morning anchor for "Today in LA" on KNBC-TV, which won the Golden Mike award for "Best Daytime News Broadcast" in 2017. In 2013, he earned a Los Angeles Emmy for a multi-part investigation into reported scams at auto-repair shops.

During his time at KNBC, Whit reported on two Olympics including the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia and the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He co-hosted the station's Emmy winning special report of the Opening Ceremony in Rio.

He also reported on the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack, the 2013 shooting at LAX and the standoff between killer Christopher Dorner and the LAPD – anchoring live coverage for nine straight hours.

Before joining KNBC, he was a Washington-based CBS News correspondent and fill-in anchor reporting on national news, the White House and Capitol Hill. During his time at the network, he covered then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on several stops across the Middle East and interviewed her minutes after news broke that Muammar Gaddafi had been killed.

Whit was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a graduate from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in television and radio broadcasting.

You can follow him at @WhitJohnson.

Carissa Culiner is a co-host on E!'s "Daily Pop," a one-hour live television program that delivers fun, insightful and relatable conversations centered around the biggest, most fascinating entertainment and pop culture stories of the day. "Daily Pop" guest highlights include Jared Leto, Tracee Ellis Ross, Meghan Trainor, Eva Longoria, NeNe Leakes, Julianne Hough and Derek Hough. Carissa is also an on-air correspondent for "E! News" covering Hollywood's biggest events and red carpets. Carissa started her career in country radio co-hosting the show "Scotty & Carissa in the Morning" on the award-winning station, Clear 99 (KCLR-FM). While hosting, she was a recipient of the "CMA Small Market Personality of the Year" award and the NAB Marconi Radio Award for "Small Market Personality of the Year." Carissa lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Shanon and their son, Chase. Twitter / Instagram: @CarissaCuliner

Lauren Zima is an entertainment host, producer and reporter for Entertainment Tonight and ETOnline. She was recently promoted to Entertainment Tonight Correspondent and also hosts the popular Bachelor Nation recap show, "Roses and Rosé" (yes, she has found a way to drink wine at work)!

Lauren grew up in the Midwest, attended Mizzou and first moved to LA after college to pursue acting. But a loss in her family sparked a shift in her path, causing her to re-evaluate her priorities and her outlook on the future. Lauren eventually made a full-time transition to journalism back in the Midwest, taking a job with online news startup Newsy. Little did she know that job would lead her back to LA and her big break at ET.

You can follow her at @LaurenZima.

Jason Kennedy serves as a co-host for "E! News, " covering Hollywood's biggest red carpets and awards shows with recent interview highlights that include Jennifer Lopez, Nicole Kidman, Kelly Clarkson, Jimmy Fallon and Tim Tebow. Jason also hosts Live From the Red Carpet at the Emmy's, Billboard Awards, American Music Awards, as well as E!'s Oscar and Golden Globe coverage.

In 2017, Jason's on-air work helped "E! News" earn a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Entertainment News Program. The show has been nominated for 5 Daytime Emmy Awards and he is known for getting stars to open up on the daily flagship news show. Jason was also named "One of the Top 10 Next Broadcasters of Our Generation" by the Los Angeles Times in 2014.

Jason can also be seen regularly on NBC's "Today." He was also the voice of American Idol Rewind on Fox, hosted the primetime show Dance Machine on ABC. Prior to joining "E! News," Kennedy served as correspondent for the TV Guide Network.

Kennedy attended The University of Miami where he received several awards including the Associated Press Award for Best News Feature in the State of Florida.

You can follow Jason on Twitter at @JasonKennedy1 and on Instagram at @thejasonkennedy.

Janai Norman is co-anchor of ABC World News Now and America This Morning, and a correspondent for Good Morning America.

Janai began her career with ABC News in 2011 as an intern with NewsOne in NY. She next moved on to work at local stations in Columbia, MO, Tulsa, OK, and Orlando where she covered a wide range of stories as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor, including the Moore tornado and the Pulse nightclub shooting. In 2016 Janai rejoined ABC News as a multi-platform reporter in Washington, DC covering the Trump administration, Capitol Hill, and other breaking news stories for local ABC affiliates. Her work has also appeared on weekend GMA and World News. With news breaking around the clock every day, our overnight team is more than ever a key part of our multi-platform, 24/7 line-up. Janai is a vibrant, talented journalist and she will be an incredible partner alongside Kendis. I'm excited for our overnight audience to get to know her.

You can follow Janai on Instagram at @janai.norman and on Twitter at @janai.

Seth Moulton is a father, husband, Iraq War Veteran, and a Congressman running for President of the United States in 2020. He now serves the 6th District of Massachusetts, with an office just ten minutes from where he grew up, but he first began serving our country when he was 22.

It was the minister at his college church at Harvard who inspired Seth to serve. "It's not enough to just support those who serve," Rev Peter Gomes said, "You have to go out and do something yourself." That advice resonated with Seth, and he decided to join the Marines.

9/11 happened a few months after his graduation, and little more than a year later, Seth was an infantry platoon commander in the first company of Marines to enter Baghdad in 2003. Despite his disagreements with the war, he insisted on returning for a total of four combat deployments so nobody would have to go in his place.

Seth went to business school on the GI Bill and worked in the private sector in Texas building the country's first high-speed railway, but missed the sense of purpose he had in the Marines. Serving in Iraq with some of the best Americans he has ever met—while feeling let down and left behind by the politicians in Washington who sent them there—inspired Seth to run for Congress in 2014. He took on a nine-term incumbent backed by the party establishment, calling for a new generation of leadership in Congress, and overcame a 54-point deficit to win. He's been keeping the promises of that campaign ever since.

In just three short terms in Congress, Seth has worked tirelessly to guarantee good-paying jobs for hard-working people—helping revitalize the biggest city in his district, the old factory city of Lynn, by organizing state and local leaders of all backgrounds. He's become a leading voice on foreign policy and national security, serving on the Armed Services Committee and holding the Pentagon accountable while introducing bills to transform our national defense and combat foreign influence in America's elections. And determined to lead by example, he held more town hall meetings in the 114th Congress than any other Democrat in the House or Senate—making sure that the voices of his constituents would be heard in Washington. He's also fought for veterans health care while upholding his promise to continue getting his own care at the VA.

After the election in 2016, Seth recognized that America needs leaders who have faced challenges more difficult than losing an election or standing up to President Trump. So he used his organization, Serve America, to help change Washington by electing more service-driven leaders to Congress. Seth and his team mentored the candidates, raised millions of dollars for them, and campaigned alongside them in tough, Republican-held districts across the country. On election night, that hard work paid off: twenty-one of Serve America's candidates won, accounting for half of all Democratic pickups in the House and flipping districts that voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016.

Seth lives in Salem, Massachusetts with his wife, Liz, and his daughter, Emmy.

For more information, visit SethMoulton.com.

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Anthony Scaramucci is an American financier, entrepreneur and political figure. He is the founder and co-managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, a global alternative investments firm.

As part of the first generation of his family to attend college, Scaramucci graduated from the Tufts University and Harvard Law School before embarking on a successful career in the financial services industry. In November 2016, Scaramucci was named to President-Elect Trump's Presdential Transition Team Executive Committee. In June 2017, he was named the Chief Strategy Officer of the Export-Import Bank. He served as the White House Communications Director for 11 days in July 2017.

In 2016, Scaramucci was ranked #85 in Worth Magazine's Power 100: The Most Powerful People in Global Finance. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year-New York" Award in the Financial Services category. He is a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Scaramucci was born and raised on Long Island, New York, where he still resides today.

*This interview was recorded on 7/26/19.

Lilia Luciano is an award-winning investigative journalist, documentary film director, producer and public speaker. Lilia has a unique style of reporting that was developed over a decade of video storytelling.

In 2018, her documentary 'Puerto Rico Rises,' which she directed and produced for ABC Sacramento, earned her a regional Emmy Award. Her coverage of the Northern California Wildfires of 2018 received a regional Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuous Coverage. In 2013 Lilia was also awarded a GLAAD award for her coverage of homophobia in U.S. Hispanic media.

She is the director and producer of 'Wars of Others,' an HBO Latino film about the social, environmental, health and security consequences of the war on drugs in Colombia. She also worked as a host on several VICE platforms, including VICE News, VICELAND and Munchies. She is the founder of CoInspire, a video and event platform that explores values of entrepreneurship.

Lilia sits on the Advisory Board of the United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign to promote access to quality education and the well-being of girls worldwide. She has been a speaker and moderator at multiple tech conferences around the world, including The Oslo Freedom Forum, TEDx, Nexus Global Youth Summit, SIME and Reinvention.

As a national NBC News correspondent, reporting in both English and Spanish, Lilia led coverage of a number of high-profile news stories and reported for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, MSNBC, The Weather Channel, CNBC and Telemundo.

Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Lilia is fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

She graduated from the University of Miami with degrees in Economics and Broadcast Journalism. She previously attended Tufts University until 2003, when she made her transition from pre-med studies to journalism.

For more on Lilia visit www.LiliaLuciano.com and follow her @LiliaLuciano.

David Begnaud is the lead national correspondent for CBS This Morning based in New York. He joined CBS News in 2015 and his stories can be seen across all CBS News broadcasts and platforms including CBS Evening News, 48 Hour, CBS Sunday Morning and CBSN. David's reporting has earned him some of journalism's most prestigious awards.

Among David's most notable assignments: his coverage of Puerto Rico's protests for governor Riccardo Roselló to resign and Hurricane Maria when it hit the island in October 2017. He spent more time covering Puerto Rico's recovery than any other network news correspondent, traveling to the island countless times, and breaking numerous significant stories. His distinctive, unmatched reporting resulted in government action, and throughout the crisis, he delivered sustained coverage on all platforms -- especially on social media. His coverage of Hurricane Maria earned him the prestigious George Polk award for public service in 2018. The award, as the nominating committee states, places "a premium on investigative work that is original, resourceful, and thought provoking." David also received Radio Television Digital News Association's First Amendment Leadership Award his for significant contribution to the protection of the First Amendment and freedom of the press.

At CBS News, David has covered major news stories around the world including the shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, and the devastating earthquake that hit Ecuador in April of 2016 leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured. In the summer of 2017, he covered Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Hurricane Irma in Florida, and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. David's coverage of important national and international stories is also featured prominently on CBSN, CBS News' 24/7 streaming news service.

Prior to CBS, David covered a wide variety of national breaking news from weather to crime for several news organizations. Previously, he created and reported for "Newsbreaker" at ORA-TV, a social media platform for current events and breaking news and was a contributing correspondent for "Entertainment Tonight," the No. 1 syndicated entertainment newsmagazine in the world.

His career began in local news at KLFY-TV as an unpaid "teen reporter" while in high school, in his home state of Louisiana. Upon graduation, KLFY-TV hired him as a full-time reporter. He later became the weekend morning and evening news anchor. During the week he attended college, and graduated from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette in 2005.

You can follow him at @DavidBegnaud.