TEDxHarlem Salon

Speakers

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• Darla Miles

  Darla Miles is a six time Emmy Award winning reporter for the number one local news station in the country, legendary WABC-TV Eyewitness News in New York City. She joined the team as a general assignment reporter in 2009. Fluent in Spanish, Darla began her journalism career as a teleprompter operator for CNN Español in Atlanta, working her way up the ranks in various technical roles before she was promoted to creative services producer – all as a part of the original team that launched the 24-hour network in 1997. From CNN en Español, Darla moved to reporting and anchoring roles at WJBF in Augusta, WTVD in Raleigh-Durham, and WFAA in Dallas-Fort Worth and has worked as a weekend anchor for CNN Headline News. In addition to her reporting duties at Channel 7 Eyewitness News, Darla has served as a fill-in anchor for ABC World News Now and for ABC News American This Morning. She is the creator and executive producer of the ABC Owned Television Stations and Hulu streaming true crime documentary “Set the Record Straight: The Jam Master Jay Case.” The project earned four Emmy Awards and four Telly award. A native of Ft. Worth, Texas, Darla earned a B.A. in English with a minor in Spanish from Atlanta's Spelman College. During her undergraduate studies, she spent a semester abroad through Syracuse University’s Division of International Programs Abroad at the Instituto Internacional in Madrid, Spain. Her post-graduate studies include attending the prestigious Yale University Writers Workshop. Darla isa member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Links, Incorporated.