Sukanya Krishnan

Krishnan was born on the 2nd of August on 1971 in Chennai, India. After her family shifted to the United States of America, she spent her childhood on Staten Island.

She went to New Dorp High School where the famous hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan member Method man was one of her classmates. She pursued higher education as she attended Dickinson College and graduated in 1993 earning a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish.

Krishnan, during one of her anchoring moments, announced, in front of her audience, her marriage to Eric Schroeder in September 17, 2009. The couple gave birth to their first child, a boy, Kiran on the 22nd of July, 2009 and they currently reside in Staten Island.

Their second child and first daughter, Shyla Alexy, was born on May 31, 2013, just a day after her husband Eric was promoted to Captain in the FDNY.

Sukanya Krishnan started out her career in the news market of New York at WLIG-TV at Long Island in 1994 after which she moved on to working as an anchor, producer and reporter of the 6pm and 11pm news broadcasts at WUTR-TV, an ABC affiliate in Utica, New York in 1995.

She learned many useful skills including shooting, writing and editing new stories during her time at WLIG-TV and WUTR-TV. Also, when she was interning at WLIG-TV, she started her broadcasting career. She worked as a morning/noon anchor and reporter for WHP-TV, a CBS affiliate at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, after which she joined WCBS-TV and got the opportunity to cover many big stories including the TWA Flight 800, the “Million Man March”, and the central Pennsylvania flood of 1996.

She also covered other big political events including the Clinton White House impeachment proceedings, Rudolph Giuliani’s cleanup of Times Square, the Abner Louima beating, and the 1998 race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa to the first to exceed Roger Maris’s single-season home run record.

Krishnan has received an Emmy Award along with the Project Impact “Creating a Voice” Award. She was also honored with a Distinguished Broadcast Journalist commendation after she covered the aftermath of September 11 attack. She appeared in HBO’s “The Sporanos” playing the role of a reporter covering a mob.

She was also awarded and honored at FeTNA (Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America) annual convention, which was held in New York on October 9th, 2007 and named as one of the 2007 Power Women by the New York Moves Magazine.

Krishnan, in her long and awarding career, has managed to be recognized all over the world as a brilliant journalist. She has fans all round the globe and followers who monitor her every activity, especially on social media platforms.

Available at @sukanya on Twitter, she has 23900 followers and has tweeted around 21100 times. Krishnan is also available on Instagram (at @sikanya) and has 22 thousand people following her. She possesses a Facebook account as well, in which 34 thousand people have liked her page and 35 thousand people are following her.

Sukanya Krishnan has come a long way since the beginning of her career. The 46-year-old’s current net worth is around $3 million.

This massive amount serves as proof of her years of hard work and brilliance in the field of Journalism.