Alison Harmelin is the co-founder and chief brand officer at Zeel.com, an on-demand in-home health & wellness company. Prior to Zeel, from 2005 to 2015, she was an American television journalist for

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based in New York City. Harmelin last served as a fill-in anchor for CBS News Up-to-the-Minute and also served as a fill-in anchor for the CBS Morning News and

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. Harmelin was also a correspondent for

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, the network's 24-hour daily news service, anchor and reporter for CBS MoneyWatch, and frequent contributor to CBS Radio News and CBSNews.com.

Career

Harmelin covered breaking news for more than a decade, including Hurricane Sandy, the aftermath of the September 11th attacks and the disappearance of

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370) was an international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to its planned destination ...

. She reported live from New Orleans during and after

Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina was a destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 fatalities and $125 billion in damage in late August 2005, especially in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. It was at the time the cost ...

. She covered the

Collapse of Bear Stearns The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. was a New York-based global investment bank, security (finance), securities trading and brokerage firm that failed in 2008 as part of the Great Recession, global financial crisis and recession, and was subsequent ...

in 2008 and the impact of the Great Recession on the

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people. Harmelin began her career at NBC News in London, has covered the White House and the

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in Washington D.C., and worked as a local anchor and

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at television stations in central Pennsylvania and Philadelphia before moving to New York City. Prior to her work in television, Harmelin clerked for a Los Angeles-based law firm. She later worked for then District Attorney of Philadelphia,

Lynne Abraham Lynne Marsha Abraham (born January 31, 1941) is an American attorney who served as the district attorney of the Philadelphia, City of Philadelphia from May 1991 to January 2010. She was the first woman to serve as Philadelphia's district attorney ...

. In 2003, she was nominated for an

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for her investigative series on child

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on the Internet.

Personal life

Harmelin was born and raised in Philadelphia. Her father is

Stephen Harmelin Stephen Joseph Harmelin (born May 7, 1939) is an American lawyer who specializes in corporate and transactional law. He is the co-chairman of the Philadelphia based law firm Dilworth Paxson LLP. He also served as the White House Director of Speec ...

, the former White House Director of Speechwriting and a former White House Aid to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1964 to 1965. She graduated with honors from the University of Southern California and attended the Paris-Sorbonne University. Harmelin sits on the committee for New Yorkers for Children (in foster care), and once served as a board member for the

Alliance for Lupus Research The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) is an American voluntary health organization based in New York City whose mission is to find better treatments and ultimately prevent and cure systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus), a debilitating autoimmun ...

. She is married to Internet entrepreneur and investor,

Samer Hamadeh Samer Hamadeh is an American entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of the on-demand wellness company Zeel and co-founder and former CEO of Vault.com. The first Zeel service, Massage On Demand®, and its associated iOS and Android apps, was launc ...

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