Ilia Calderón Chamat (born 1972) is a Colombian

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. Born in Chocó, Calderón currently works as the news anchor for

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's national evening newscast along with Jorge Ramos. She is also the presenter of the Univision weekly newsmagazine '' Aquí y Ahora''.

Education and early career

She majored in Social Work at

Universidad de Antioquia The University of Antioquia ( es, Universidad de Antioquia), also called UdeA, is a public, departmental, coeducational, research university located primarily in the city of Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, with regional campuses in Amalfi, An ...

. She presented several news shows, first on regional channel

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. In 1998 she went to national television for Noticiero CM&. Three years later, she went to

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, where she hosted the ''Noticiero Telemundo'' weekend edition and a segment at the now defunct morning show '' Cada Día con María Antonieta''. In 2005 she underwent a successful operation to remove a tumour in her

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. In March 2007, she left Telemundo to host

Primer Impacto ''Primer Impacto'' (''First Impact'') is a Spanish-language television news program broadcast by Univision weekdays at 5pm ET//4pm CT. A later program at 11pm ET/PT (''Primer Impacto Extra'') airs on Univision affiliates without a local news dep ...

s weekend edition. In 2009 Primer Impacto's host Fernando del Rincon was fired and Ilia became a regular co-host on the Monday-Friday edition with Barbara Bermudo leaving the weekend edition to

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. In 2010, while still co-anchoring Primer Impacto she became the co-anchor of week day edition Univision's late evening newscast "Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna" airing at 11:30pm. On June 3, 2011, it was announced that Pamela Silva would be joining

, replacing Ilia Calderón who will stay on "

Noticiero Univision ''Noticiero Univision'' (; ) is the flagship daily evening television news program of Noticias Univision, the news division of the American Spanish language broadcast television network Univision. First aired in 1981 for Spanish International Net ...

Edición Nocturna". She won an Emmy Award for her 2017 interview of Christopher Barker, the Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard. In December 2017, she made history when she replaced former co-anchor Maria Elena Salinas on Noticiero Univision. This made her the first Afro-Latina to anchor a weekday primetime newscast for a major broadcast network in the United States. On March 15, 2020, she co-hosted the eleventh Democratic Presidential Debate on

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with

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and

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Personal life

She is married to Eugene Jang; they have one daughter named Anna Jang-Calderon.Huffington Post: "Univision Anchor Writes Moving Letter On Preparing Her Daughter To Face Discrimination" By Carolina Moreno
March 24, 2015

References

External links

Ilia Calderón at Colarte
{{DEFAULTSORT:Calderon, Ilia Colombian television journalists Colombian women journalists Colombian television presenters Colombian women television presenters Colombian women television journalists 1972 births Living people University of Antioquia people People from Chocó Department American people of Colombian descent