Sonya Crawford Biography
Sonya Crawford Bearson, a Korean-born broadcast journalist, previously worked as a special-events anchor and correspondent for ABC News in Washington, DC.
Sonya Crawford Age
She was born and raised in Seoul South Korea.
Sonya Crawford Education
She studied at Stanford University and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and communication.
Sonya Crawford Parents
Sonya was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, the daughter of American missionary Dave Crawford and Korean Sue Hong.
Sonya Crawford Husband- Spouse
In 2005, she married Darren Bearson, an executive with the coal industry lobbying firm American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity and a former Republican Party official.
Sonya Crawford Career
She was a television reporter for Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), covering the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and then for Seoul Broadcasting System, covering the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. From 1993 to 1994, she worked as a reporter and assistant producer for Public Radio International’s Marketplace, followed by three years as an Associate Producer for Dateline NBC in Los Angeles. In 1999, she served as a reporter and substitute anchor at NBC’s KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. She joined ABC News as a Washington correspondent in November 2001 and remained there until June 2007, when she left to have a family. Crawford covered major events like the 2004 Republican National Convention and the funeral of US President Ronald Reagan, the funeral of Pope John Paul II and the election of his successor Pope Benedict XVI. She was a national board member of the Asian American Journalists Association and is on the board of directors of Lionshare, a Christian evangelical organization
Sonya Crawford ABC News
Crawford joined ABC News in November 2002 as a Washington correspondent for NewsOne, the network’s affiliate news service. She covered the 2004 Republican National Convention while reporting from Washington. Crawford began working as a reporter and substitute anchor for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles in 1999, where she routinely reported on the impact of religious beliefs in people’s lives, as well as other human interest issues.
Crawford Net Worth
Sonya has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
