Jessica Aguirre: News Anchor
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- Veteran Journalist: Jessica Aguirre has over 20 years of experience as a primetime evening anchor, making her a trusted and familiar face in the Bay Area.
- Emmy Award Winner: Her excellence in journalism has been recognized with multiple Emmy awards, highlighting her commitment to impactful storytelling and high-quality reporting.
- NBC Bay Area News Anchor: Jessica anchors the 5, 6, and 11 p.m. evening news for NBC Bay Area, keeping her audience informed on critical local, national, and global stories.
- Travels from: San Francisco, CA
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Jessica Aguirre is the 5, 6 and 11 p.m. evening anchor at NBC Bay Area News and an Emmy award winning journalist. Jessica has been a primetime, evening anchor, in the Bay Area for over 20 years.
In addition to anchoring the evening news, Jessica is the co-host of NBC Bay Area’s Race in America: The Conversation alongside Marcus Washington. The show explores racial equity and social injustice and attempts to bridge the divide between backgrounds and generations.
Jessica began her career at the Spanish Language network, Univision, while attending the University of Miami. Before arriving in the Bay Area in 1998 she anchored and reported in Los Angeles and Miami, earning Emmy awards for her series on the struggles of migrant children and for her investigative work on child molesters as well as an Associated Press award for her series chronicling the struggle of boat people fleeing Cuba.
Jessica Aguirre | News Anchor
During her tenure at NBC Bay Area Jessica won an Emmy for her poignant series, on the emotional journey of an East Bay transgender teen and her efforts to preserve her fertility before undergoing sex reassignment surgery, another Emmy for her live coverage of the “Ghostship” warehouse fire in Oakland and for field anchoring from the deadly Sonoma and Napa county firestorms.
Most recently Jessica Aguirre was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Silver Circle for twenty-five years of excellence in television journalism.
Jessica resides in the East Bay, with her two daughters. Her devotion to learning, supporting children and local charities has her routinely on the lecture circuit in the Bay Area discussing education, gender equity and minority advancement in the workplace.
Jessica Aguirre also serves on the board of Watermark, the Bay Area’s largest membership organization dedicated to increasing the number of women in leadership positions.
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