Family and Early Life
Born in Madras, India (now Chennai), Krishnan grew up on Staten Island and attended New Dorp High School, where amongst her classmates was Wu Tang Clan member, Method Man.
In 1993 she graduated from Dickinson College with a bachelor's degree in Spanish, and as president of the senior class.
Krishnan's prior experience in the New York news market included a stint at WCBS-TV, from June 1997 to July 2001 as a general assignment reporter. In 1995 she was an anchor, reporter and producer of the 6 pm and 11 pm news broadcasts at ABC affiliate WUTR-TV in Utica, New York. She cut her teeth in broadcasting at Long Island's WLIG-TV in 1994. During her year there, Krishnan did a variety of jobs from shooting, writing, and editing news stories behind the camera to reporting on the air in front of the camera.
It was during her internship at WLIG-TV that Krishnan first began her pursuit of a career in broadcasting. Prior to joining WCBS-TV, she was a morning/noon anchor and reporter for WHP-TV, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's CBS affiliate. She covered various stories including TWA Flight 800, the "Million Man March" and the floods of 1996 which wreaked havoc on central Pennsylvania. While at WCBS-TV, Krishnan covered breaking news for CBS 2's 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. The range of stories she covered included everything from the Clinton White House impeachment proceedings, then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's cleanup of Times Square, the Abner Louima beating, and the 1998 race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa to be the first to exceed Roger Maris's single-season home run record.
In addition to her Emmy Award, Krishnan has also won the Project Impact (formerly Indian American Political Awareness Committee)'s "Creating A Voice" Award, and a Distinguished Broadcast Journalist commendation from the Office of the Comptroller of the City of New York, for her work covering the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Her community volunteering includes being a celebrity judge for the 2005 Iron Skillet Cookoff. In March 2004, Krishnan played a reporter covering the mob on the "Two Tonys" episode of HBO's The Sopranos.
In July 2006, she was honored at the FeTNA (Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America) annual convention held in New York City. On October 9, 2007, Krishnan was named one of the 2007 Power Women by New York Moves Magazine, at an awards ceremony hosted by Academy Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino and MC'd by comedian Judy Gold.
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