Michaela Pereira Biography

Fast Facts

• In 2006, she received the best daytime news broadcast honor at the Radio & TV News Association Golden Mike Awards
• An advocate for children in the foster system, she has served on the advisory board of the Court Appointed Special Advocates
• Won a Mark Twain Award for her coverage of the hostage standoff at the Mexican consulate
• Earned her bachelor of arts degree from McGill University
• Was adopted by a primary school teacher mother and a social worker father when she was 3 months old and grew up alongside four other adopted sisters
• Started out in broadcasting as the host of a British Columbian documentary special
• Member of the National Association of Black Journalists
• Possesses the ability to speak Portuguese and English