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Mika Edwards
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Mika L. Edwards (born Dec. 9 1979) is an award winning broadcast journalist. Biography Early Life and Family Born in San Francisco, California to a Swiss-English-Native American father and a Irish-Sweedish mother. Edwards was born without a pulmonary valve and subsequently had first of three open heart surgeries one day after birth. At the age of five, Edwards moved to Santa Rosa, California, where she lived until the age of 17. She graduated from Santa Rosa High School in 1998 and then pursued her education. Education and Professional Career Edwards began her formal journalistic training at the age of 20 as an intern at the Marin Independent Journal in Novato, California. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism in 2004. In June 2005, Edwards left the Independent Journal and moved to Houma, Louisiana where she was hired by The Courier, a New York Times newspaper, as a education reporter. While at the Courier, Edwards covered Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, and won several journalism awards including the prestigious Punch Sulzberger Award and numerous Louisiana Press Association and Associated Press awards. While at the Courier Edwards appeared twice on Court TV to speak about the Courier's investigation of the story of Ronald Dominique, an alleged serial killer who is said to have killed 23 Louisiana men over the previous ten years. Edwards left Louisiana in August 2007 to pursue her career in Broadcast Journalism. She currently works as an Associate Producer. Personal life Edwards has never been married and has no children. 
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