Sarah Lee Biography
Sarah Choi Lee is a Korean American CNN’s correspondent. Lee formerly worked as a reporter for WJLA-TV, an ABC station in Washington, D.C., between 2003 and 2009. She was on NewsChannel 8, which is owned by the same business, Allbritton Communications.
Sarah Lee Age
Lee was born Sarah Choi Lee in 1971, in Manhattan, New York, United States of America. She is 53 years old as of 2023.
Sarah Lee Education
She attended Colby College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Government and History. She studied abroad in South Korea, France, and Ireland.
Sarah Lee Husband- Married
Married to H.K. Park, a Vice President of The Cohen Group, a consulting firm led by former Senator and Defense Secretary William Cohen. The Baltimore Sun wrote about their engagement in Bermuda, while The New York Times covered their wedding day.
Sarah Lee Career
Lee started her career behind the scenes at Dateline NBC, where she helped research topics both undercover and on camera. Prior to working in Washington, DC, she reported on the air in Greenville, North Carolina and at WTVR-TV in Richmond, Virginia. As a correspondent for NBC and MSNBC’s Washington office, she was the on-scene reporter during the 2002 Quecreek Mine Rescue, in which nine coal workers were trapped and rescued from a Pennsylvania mine. She reported on the DC Sniper inquiry and from The Pentagon on September 11th and subsequent days. She also reported on Hurricanes Bertha (1996), Fran (1996), Bonnie (1998), Dennis (1999), and Floyd (1999). Prior to her position at WJLA, she worked as a national correspondent for the Washington Bureau of NBC News and as a reporter for WRC-TV in Washington, DC. She was named one of Korea’s Future Leaders by the JoongAng Ilbo, one of Korea’s “big three newspapers”.
Her efforts have won her an Emmy nomination and three Virginia Associated Press Awards. She formerly served as Broadcast Vice President of the Asian American Journalists Association’s DC Chapter and was named one of Korea’s Future Leaders by the JoongAng Ilbo. She was designated a Knight Fellow for Specialized Journalism. Her focus was on the American military. She was one of 26 WJLA employees thrown off on January 23, 2009, due to what station managers described as “a financial necessity in light of economic straits”. She and her husband, H.K. Park, have two children and created a guide to Arlington County, Virginia’s playgrounds. In June 2016, their children published a second book entitled “How Your City Works.
Sarah Lee Net Worth
Sarah has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.