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Rehema Ellis
Chief Education Correspondent, NBC News
Rehema Ellis was named the chief education correspondent at NBC News in 2010. She played an integral part of the groundbreaking NBC News’ “Education Nation” initiative. Her reports appear on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Today, and MSNBC.
Ellis was part of the NBC Emmy award-winning coverage of the plane crash in the Hudson River called, Miracle on the Hudson. She also won an Emmy for her reporting on the 2008 Presidential Election of Barack Obama and the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Ellis has been part of other headliner stories including the attacks on the World Trade Center. She was the first person to identify the attack on the air as “Nine-Eleven”. She’s reported on Hurricane Katrina, the death of Michael Jackson and the Haiti earthquake.
As a correspondent for NBC, Ellis traveled to Zaire to report on the mass killings that left an estimated one million people dead in Rwanda. A few years later she spent a month in Greece covering the summer Olympics.
Ellis joined NBC NEWS in 1994 as a general assignment correspondent. She began her broadcast career at KDKA Radio and TV in Pittsburgh. Later, she worked in Boston at WHDH-TV as a reporter and weekend anchor.
She is a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Journalism. Ellis is also an honorary Board Member of Horizons National, an educational summer enrichment program serving low-income students across the country.
Born in North Carolina, and raised in Boston, she graduated from Simmons College in Boston and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York.
Ellis currently lives in New York City with her teenage son.
