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Michelle Robinson McKissack
my Bio
Michelle Robinson McKissack embraces change and challenges in her life with a zeal that is second to none. Competing in the Mrs. Tennessee pageant is a manifestation of that and her faith to go wherever God directs.
A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Michelle is one of five children born to Charles and Earnestine Robinson. She graduated from White Station High School in Memphis with honors and went on to attend college and double major in journalism and Urban Studies.
She received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
There is where Michelle met John P. McKissack, an engineering major. She often credits him with invaluable tutoring skills in her math courses. She married her college sweetheart in 1994. She and her husband have three sons, John (age 9), James (age 5) and Peter (age 4).
Professionally, Michelle is an award-winning journalist with an accomplished broadcasting career. For the last 15 years, know to television viewers as Michelle Robinson, she has served as a television news anchor, reporter and program host in Memphis, Chicago, Peoria and Washington, D.C. While working as a news anchor at WPTY-TV in Memphis, she was part of the Emmy Award-winning team for the station’s coverage of the 1999 Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona. McKissack has also taught journalism as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University and the University of Memphis. Though Michelle's professional background is in broadcast journalism, her talents go beyond into the entertainment industry. She hosted and co-produced "A Woman and Her Music," a PBS-broadcast documentary about her mother, composer Earnestine Rodgers Robinson. She has performed dramatic narrations as part of her mother's oratorios, "The Crucifixion" at Carnegie Hall in 2001 and of "The Nativity" in Prague with the Czech National Symphony in 2002. While working as a news anchor in Memphis, movie producer Michael Hausman saw her on TV and cast her as a reporter in the motion picture, "The People vs. Larry Flynt." She also played a news anchor in the Tom Hanks film, "Cast Away." Elite Memphis magazine in 2002 named Michelle one of the 30 Most Beautiful People.
Though Michelle's professional background is in broadcast journalism, her talents go beyond into the entertainment industry. She hosted and co-produced "A Woman and Her Music," a PBS-broadcast documentary about her mother, composer Earnestine Rodgers Robinson. She has performed dramatic narrations as part of her mother's oratorios, "The Crucifixion" at Carnegie Hall in 2001 and of "The Nativity" in Prague with the Czech National Symphony in 2002. While working as a news anchor in Memphis, movie producer Michael Hausman saw her on TV and cast her as a reporter in the motion picture, "The People vs. Larry Flynt." She also played a news anchor in the Tom Hanks film, "Cast Away." Elite Memphis magazine in 2002 named Michelle one of the 30 Most Beautiful People.Michelle is currently a freelance producer/on-air personality, stay-at-home Mom and an avid community volunteer. She is president of the Downtown Elementary School PTA, Grace-St. Luke’s PDO Advisory Board Chairperson, serves on the Memphis City Schools Telecommunications Advisory Board and has served on the Memphis Arts Council Advisory Board. One of Michelle’s accomplishments she is especially proud of is serving as the chairperson of an Arts Education program at Downtown Elementary named “Heart for Art.” It provides an interdisciplinary arts education to all the students in the school. When she took on the volunteer position, the program was financially in the red. Michelle organized a fundraiser that subsequently raised more than $10,000 in one week’s time.
Michelle is Mrs. West Tennessee 2007. She will compete in the state preliminary for the nationally televised Mrs. America pageant in May.
Copyright 2007 Michelle Robinson McKissack. All Rights Reserved.
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