Betty Nguyen
Betty Nguyen is a news anchor for CNN/U.S. Based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, Nguyen joined the network in April 2004.
Before joining CNN, Nguyen was an anchor for KTVT in Dallas. During her six-year tenure with the CBS affiliate, she covered numerous breaking news events including the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers in New York.
Nguyen began her career as a morning anchor and reporter at KWTX in Waco, Texas. During her tenure with the CBS affiliate, she received an Associated Press Award for spot news coverage. In 2003, she won the Legacy of Women Award and was named a Great Women of Texas Honoree and also won a regional Emmy award for "Outstanding Noon Newscast," while anchoring for KTVT in Dallas.
Nguyen also served as a freelance correspondent for E! Entertainment Television during the 2003 California gubernatorial election.
While conducting several humanitarian aid trips to her birth country of Vietnam, Nguyen provided extensive coverage of the deadly flooding along the Mekong Delta.
Nguyen is the co-founder of Help the Hungry, an organization that strives to alleviate global hunger as well as provide humanitarian relief to needy families around the world. Her philanthropic work also earned her a spot in the Philanthropy in Texas Hall of Fame.
She is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association.
Nguyen graduated magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism.