Richelle Carey Biography
Richelle Carey is a broadcast journalist from the United States. She was previously an anchor for Al Jazeera America and is now an anchor for Al Jazeera English.
How old is Richelle Carey? – Age
She is 44 years old as of 13 October 2020. She was born in 1976 in Houston, Texas, United States.
Richelle Carey Family – Education
Richelle is of mixed black and white ancestry. Carey’s mother is a nurse who works with at-risk teenagers in low-income areas. Carey graduated from Baylor University in Texas with a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications after attending Smith College in Massachusetts.
Richelle Carey Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2million.
Richelle Carey Career
Among Carey’s, notable reporting assignments was covering Fort Hood in Texas, the world’s largest military installation. She also spent a week in Bosnia, where she finished a four-part series about soldiers from the 1st US Cavalry stationed there. While at KMOV, she received the Houston Association of Black Journalists’ “Emerging Journalist” award and won an Emmy for consumer features reporting.
Carey is a member of the Girls Scouts of Greater Atlanta board of directors, as well as Men Stopping Violence, an organization dedicated to ending male violence against women. She also hosts “What Matters,” a weekly segment on HLN that focuses on the most pressing issues and concerns that African-Americans face. She joined HLN/CNN in 2006 and is based in Atlanta at the network’s global headquarters.
Carey joined HLN from KMOV in St. Louis, where she had been the anchor of “News 4 This Morning” since 2003. Carey previously worked as a morning anchor for KVVU-TV in Las Vegas and KETK-TV in Tyler, Texas. Carey has also worked as a military reporter for KWTX-TV in Waco, Texas. She started her career as an associate producer for Houston’s KPRC-TV.