Tracee Carrasco (born September 2, 1981) is an American TV news reporter for

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. Carrasco previously reported for CBS 2 News,

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Biography

Carrasco was born in

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, the daughter of Sheril (née Carrasco) and Gilbert Tolentino. She was raised in Hawaii and

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. She is of

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descent. Carrasco graduated from

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in Southern California with a degree in Communication Studies where she interned at

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(Channel 7) News, Los Angeles. Other internships included

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(Channel 2) /

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(Channel 9) News, Los Angeles (Entertainment Dept. 2004). Later, she was a field reporter as well as fill-in anchor in

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''CitiCable 3''. In February 2010, she accepted a position as the Weekend Anchor / Weekday Reporter for the

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affiliate KQDS serving the upper Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan regions. Her reporting for KQDS earned two ''Upper Midwest Emmy'' nominations in the categories Public / Current / Community Affairs ("Honest Northland Series") and Historic / Cultural / Nostalgic (“A Tribute to Ben Larson: Missionary Killed in Haiti’s Earthquake”). In August 2011, she accepted a position as a fill-in anchor and reporter for the

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affiliate in

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, WKRN ''News 2''. In June 2013, she accepted a position as general assignment reporter for

and

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10/55 in New York. In May 2017, she joined the

as a general assignment reporter. Carrasco has also appeared with

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's ''

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'' on HLN.

Publications

Carrasco has had pieces published in various newspapers and magazines such as the ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''Equities Magazine''.

References

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Biography

Publications

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