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Christina Pascucci
Christina Pascucci is an Emmy award-winning journalist, licensed pilot, activist, and humanitarian. She is a bilingual reporter and anchor at KTLA, the #1 news station in Los Angeles, where she has worked since 2011. Throughout her broadcasting career, she has reported from all seven continents.

Pascucci is known for her sense of adventure and mission to tell stories that inspire social change. She went diving with great white sharks to expose shark finning and plunged 13,000 feet while strapped to a member of the United States Navy Parachute team to show viewers the extreme measures elite forces go through to execute dangerous missions. She faced 30-foot waves while sailing through the roughest seas in the world to reach Antarctica, where she worked with climatologists and went undercover with the LAPD to help people understand the devastation and complexity of human trafficking.

EARLY LIFE AND CAREER
Christina Pascucci was born in Los Angeles, California. She grew up in Calabasas, California, and attended the University of Southern CaliforniaShe earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with an emphasis on Entrepreneurship and International Business. She also obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and studied Broadcast Journalism.

KOLO ABC NEWS
Pascucci's first job in journalism was in 2009 as a video journalist at KOLO ABC News in Reno, Nevada, where she shot, edited, and reported on the top breaking stories of the day. She obtained exclusive, rare access with the madam of the infamous Mustang Ranch. During her time at KOLO, her investigative reporting uncovered arson as the cause of one of the city's most destructive fires and secured high-profile interviews with Nevada Senator John Ensign.

KMIR6 NBC News
Pascucci anchored the KMIR6 NBC News weekday morning show from 2010 to 2012, where she was twice voted TV personality of the year.

Trinity Broadcasting Network

Pascucci produced and hosted a 30-minute special of the Global Gathering Conference in Italy and interviewed world leaders and activists, including a mother whose daughter was enslaved by Joseph Kony for a decade.

Uproxx
Pascucci was an international correspondent for Uproxx from 2016 to 2018, where she investigated New Zealand's dwindling bee populations and worked with farmers to explore Manuka harvesting methods. She dove with hundreds of sharks in the Republic of Palau to expose shark finning and worked with the government to research weather patterns in an investigative report that garnered 1M+ views.

PBS
Pascucci traveled to Riyadh and AlUla, Saudi Arabi, in 2020, reporting for PBS within months of the Kingdom opening to foreigners. She interviewed Nobel Laureates and the royal family at the Hegra Conference to investigate the legitimacy of progression in women's rights and the rapid changes of the Kingdom.

KTLA
Pascucci serves as an anchor and reporter where she has covered both local and national stories that include interviewing the Dalai Lama in India, uncovering wasteful practices by the Los Angeles Department of Water that resulted in changed policy and national coverage, exposing a cover-up case involving a cancer cluster at Malibu High School, and embedding with the United States Army at Fort Irwin.

PERSONAL LIFE AND CHARITABLE WORK
Pascucci is a licensed pilot and became the only female Commissioner of the Los Angeles Aviation Commission in 2018, where she oversees the planning and development of LA County Airports.

Since 2018, she has been a Senior Delegate of the Junior League of Los Angeles, where she has traveled statewide to advocate for foster youth and is co-sponsoring legislation to fight homelessness.

In 2017, President Remengesau of the Republic of Palau appointed Pascucci as Goodwill Ambassador after she brought awareness to the climate crisis.

Pascucci became the Director of Communications for the Children of War Foundation in 2017, which provides life-saving medical care for refugees and child victims of war across the globe, with a concentration in the Middle East. She is also very involved with Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters, where she has mentored a young girl for more than ten years and was awarded California's Big Sister of the Year in 2019. She was chosen from 10,000 mentors.

AWARDS
Pascucci and her team won an Emmy in 2019. The Los Angeles Press Club nominated her Journalist of the Year in 2018. The City of Los Angeles recognized Christina for her work with inner-city youth in 2019; the same year, she was also honored by the California State Senate. She was awarded TV Personality of the Year twice while in Palm Springs.