PERSON: Campbell Brown

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Alma Dale Campbell Brown (born June 14, 1968) is a past head of global media partnerships at Meta and a former American television news reporter and anchorwoman. She was a co-anchor of the NBC News program Weekend Today from 2003 to 2007, and hosted the prime time news program Campbell Brown on CNN from 2008 to 2010. Brown won an Emmy Award as part of the NBC team reporting on Hurricane Katrina. She is a senior advisor to Tollbit, a website services provider.

Campbell Brown was born Alma Dale Campbell Brown in Ferriday, Louisiana, the daughter of the former Louisiana Democratic State Senator and Secretary of State James H. Brown Jr., and Brown’s first wife, Dale Campbell. Her father was also elected three times for Louisiana Insurance Commissioner. Alma Dale was her maternal grandmother’s name.[9] Her parents divorced when she was young.

Brown was raised as a Roman Catholic, though her father is a Presbyterian. She has two sisters.

Brown grew up in Ferriday, Louisiana, and attended the Trinity Episcopal Day School. Her family was involved in hunting, politics, and cooking, “It was all about Cajun and tight-knit families and big parties,” according to Brown.

She was expelled from the Madeira School for sneaking off campus to go to a party. Brown attended Louisiana State University for two years before graduating from Regis University. After graduation, she spent a year teaching English in Czechoslovakia.

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