Cynthia Santana

Cynthia Santana (born circa 1969) is a former American television news reporter and anchor.

Early life and education

She was born and raised along the Arizona-Mexico border, Santana earned a bachelor's degree from Northern Arizona University in journalism and broadcast production in 1993.

Professional career

Santana began her professional career in radio, and then shifted to television, taking a job at KNAZ-TV in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she worked from 1992 until September 1993. Santana then worked as a weekday news anchor at KOLD-TV in Tucson, Arizona from 1993 until 1996. From 1996 until October 2001, Santana was a weekend anchor and primary weekday fill-in anchor at WNYW-TV in New York City, which she left when she and management could not come to terms and her contract was not renewed.

In January 2002, Santana joined WBBM-TV in Chicago as the station's weekend co-anchor. In June 2003, Santana resigned from WBBM after management demoted her from being a weekend news anchor in favor of the husband-and-wife weekend anchoring team of Jon Duncanson and Sylvia Gomez.

In 2004, Santana became a producer, writer and narrator for Morgan Howard Productions, a visual communications company in Kirkland, Washington.