Giselle Fernandez is an anchor for Spectrum Cable’s News 1 and a five-time Emmy award-winning journalist, newsreader, and film producer. She’s also recognized for making her network television début as a guest anchor and reporter on NBC Today, CBS Early Show, BC Nightly News, and CBS Evening News. In January 2006, she also became a contestant on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars.

She was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in the United States, on May 15, 1961. She relocated to East Los Angeles with her father, a flamenco dancer, and mother, a Mexican folklore specialist, when she was barely four years old. Giselle is of mixed heritage and possesses American citizenship. She received her bachelor’s degree in journalism and government from California State University, Sacramento, in 1982.