Donna Savarese

Donna Savarese

Donna Savarese is a Corporate Communications and Public Relations executive and two-time Emmy Award-winning former journalist. Savarese is a graduate of Fairfield University with a bachelor of arts degree in political science.

Career

Since March 2016, Savarese has served as the Director of Corporate Communications at K12 Inc., leading media relations, executive communications, and internal communications teams. Prior to K12, Savarese served in Lockheed Martin's Worldwide Media Relations unit at the company's headquarters in Bethesda Maryland. Prior to Lockheed Martin, Savarese served as Director of Communications at a veteran-owned government contractor in Arlington, Virginia.

As a journalist, Savarese anchored the 6 pm newscast at KMOV-TV in St. Louis, Missouri. Before that Savarese was the weekend anchor and reporter at KHWB-TV in Houston, Texas. Savarese also anchored newscasts at WJXX in Jacksonville, Florida, WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut and WWLP in Springfield, Massachusetts.^[1]

Awards

Savarese is a two-time Emmy award winner. She won her first Emmy for taking viewers behind closed doors to profile an order of cloistered nuns known as the Poor Clares. She won her second Emmy for her profile of Kimora Lee Simmons, the founder of the Baby Phat fashion line. She is the recipient of seven Emmy nominations, including a nomination for "Best On Camera Talent" in 2007, and a nomination in sports for an interview with the St. Louis Cardinals' former batting coach battling an addiction.

Savarese has also received two Radio and Television News Directors Association Edward R. Murrow Awards. "Remembering Riley", which aired in 2007, profiled a marine killed in the battle for Fallujah. Her second Edward R. Murrow award, entitled "For the Love of Laura," profiled a young husband's commitment to his wife who was seriously injured in a car accident.

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