Rehema Ellis Biography
Rehema Ellis is an eminent American television personality presently serving as the channel’s Chief Education Correspondent for NBC News since 2010. In 1994, She became part of the NBC NEWS team as their general assignment correspondent.
In 2010, She became the channel’s Education Correspondent. Ellis was an integral part of NBC’s first annual Education Nation summit. The Summit focused mainly on the weaknesses and strengths of America’s education system.
Her reports are always featured on MSNBC and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Also, Ellis is a digital journalist. She also blogs, writes for NBC online, shoots, and tweets.
After graduating from Columbia University, Rehema started her career at KDKA-TV and Radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
She as well served as the channel’s anchor and reporter at WHDH-TV based in Boston. Later, in 1994, she went to join NBC News as a general assignment correspondent.
Rehema Ellis Age
Rehema Ellis was born in North Carolina, United States of America in 1954. She is 68 years old.
Rehema Ellis Height
Ellis stands at a moderate height of 5 ft 6 inches ( Approx 1.68m).
Rehema Ellis Education
After she was done with her high school education, She joined Simmons College. Later, she attended the University of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York for her degree in journalism.
Rehema Ellis Family
Rehema was born in North Carolina but grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, United States to her caring father and mother. Ellis belongs to the African-American ethnicity but holds American nationality by birth.
Rehema Ellis Husband
She was earlier married to an unidentified man but the duo has been divorced for a couple of years now. Presently, Rehema lives in New York as a single mother with her son called Khori Ellis.
Rehema Ellis Children
Her son is called Khori Ellis, who is presently in the last phase of his teenage and His hobby is drawing cartoons.
Rehema Ellis Salary
Rehema earns an annual salary of $87,269 per year. This is according to NBC channel anchors’ and reporters’ salaries.
Rehema Ellis Net Worth
Ellis has an approximate net worth of between $1 million – $5 million.
Rehema Ellis Career
For more than 20 years of service in NBC, She has been parcel and part of major headliner stories including the attacks on the World Trade Centre. Ellis was the first journalist/person to identify the attack on-air as “Nine-Eleven”.
Rehema also reported on a different coverage, the Haiti earthquake and the death of Michael Jackson on Hurricane Katrina. As a distinguished lead correspondent, She has received many awards such as national and local Emmys.
On the list, Ellis holds the Associated Press awards, the Edward R. Murrow Awards, and awards from the National Association of Black Journalists. Ellis is part of the NBC Emmy award-winning team that covered the plane crash in the Hudson River.
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