Deborah Roberts Biography
Deborah Roberts is an award-winning ABC News correspondent. She has worked as an anchor and co-host on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, and The View, as well as reporting on Nightline, Good Morning America, and World News Tonight with David Muir.
Deborah Roberts Age
Roberts is 61 years old as of 2021. She was born Deborah Ann Roberts on 20 September 1960 in Perry, Georgia, United States.
Deborah Roberts Height
Roberts stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m).
Deborah Roberts Family
Roberts was born to Benjamin Roberts, a businessman, and Ruth Roberts, a housewife. Tina Clarington and Lawrence Jr. are her older sister and brother, respectively (Aka Butch).
Deborah Roberts and Al Roker – Husband
Roberts and her spouse Al Roker, whom she married in September 1995, live in Manhattan and have a daughter and a boy. From her husband’s previous marriage, Roberts has a stepdaughter. Her husband Albert Lincoln Roker Jr. is a weather presenter, journalist, TV personality, actor, author, and producer from the United States. He is currently the weather anchor on NBC’s Today and co-hosts 3rd Hour Today on occasion. His American Meteorological Society Television Seal #238 is inactive.
Deborah Roberts Education
She earned a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1982. For her early success as a journalist, Roberts received the University of Georgia Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1992.
Deborah Roberts Net Worth
Roberts has an estimated net worth of $10 million.
Deborah Roberts Artwork
Roberts’ use of collage represents the difficulties young black children have in forming their identities, particularly when they respond to established social constructions propagated by the black community, the white gaze, and visual culture in general. Roberts believes that collage allows her to create a more expansive and inclusive vision of the black cultural experience by combining a variety of various facial features, skin tones, hairstyles, and clothing.
“In her mixed-media pieces, artist Deborah Roberts acknowledges the syncretic character of black female identity,” writes Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator at MoMA in New York. She examines the formation of race and the racializing gaze endemic to Western culture by debunking normative conceptions of ideal beauty and style, as well as clichés of social media. Her collages and text-based pieces express both a critique of conventional typologies of the unified self and an affirmation of the untold significance of difference.”
Deborah Roberts Career
Roberts has reported from all over the world, including Bangladesh, where she covered a story about women’s maternity health, and Africa, where she covered an eye-opening story about the HIV/AIDS catastrophe. She won an Emmy for her dramatic, in-depth reporting on an Ethiopian-American woman’s trip back to Africa in search of her mother, as well as her coverage of President Barack Obama’s inauguration and work on ABC’s millennium coverage. She also received a Clarion Award for her reporting on abuse in the Amish culture.
Roberts began her network career as a general assignment journalist for NBC News in 1990. She worked as a reporter in the Atlanta and Miami bureaus before joining “Dateline NBC” as a correspondent.
She covered the Persian Gulf War aftermath in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, as well as the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, for which she was nominated for an Emmy. From February 1987 to May 1990, Roberts was the bureau chief of WFTV-TV, an ABC affiliate in Orlando, where he also worked as a field anchor for NASA and co-host of the weekend news.
Roberts began her career in 1982 at WTVM-TV in Columbus, Georgia, and later moved on to WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she was lauded for her coverage of the Tennessee legislature. She was also nominated for a Sports Emmy for her coverage of the 1992 Olympics, and the Orlando Sentinel named her the best local female anchor.