Sonya Crawford
— -- Sonya Crawford joined ABC News in November 2002 as a Washington-based correspondent for NewsOne, the network's affiliate news service. She also frequently reports for World News Tonight Saturday and World News Tonight Sunday. Reporting from the nation's capital, Crawford has covered the 2004 Republican National Convention, President Reagan's funeral, and the war in Iraq.
Prior to joining ABC News, Crawford worked as a reporter and substitute anchor for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles since 1999, where she regularly reported on the impact of religious faith in people's lives and other human interest stories.
Prior to coming to KNBC, she reported from and held substitute anchor duties at the Orange County News Channel.
From 1994 to 1997, Crawford spent three years as an associate producer at Dateline NBC in Los Angeles, where she won an Emmy for producing a story on the O.J. Simpson trial.
Prior to that, she worked in radio, where she wrote for KNX 1070, and then served as a reporter and assistant producer on Public Radio International's Marketplace.
Crawford began her career in broadcasting in Seoul, Korea, where she was born and raised, working as a features reporter for Korean Broadcasting Systems (KBS-TV). She covered both the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul for KBS-TV and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, for SBS-TV.
Crawford holds a B.A. in Political Science and Communication from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. She serves on the national governing and advisory boards of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA).
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