Cynthia Izaguirre
Cynthia Izaguirre
Early Life
Cynthia was born and raised along with her two sisters in a single parent household in Dallas, Texas, United States. She grew up watching her mom, a seamstress, sew many beautiful pieces of clothing and developed interest for sewing.[3] She always was a fan of football and supports North Texas Mean Green football team from Texas.[5]
Education
She started her schooling at Dallas Independent School District. She studied at Herbert Marcus Elementary, Longfellow Academy for middle school and completed schooling from Thomas Jefferson High School.[1] She went to the University of North Texas, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast journalism with a double minor in Political science and Spanish language.[1]
Career
Cynthia grew up watching WFAA in Dallas. She regularly watched WFAA meteorologist Troy Dungan and wanted to become weather reporter. After completing graduation at UNT, She started her career as a news anchor and reporter at KTAB-TV in Abilene and KLTV in Tyler.
In January 2000, she started working as a general assignment reporter at ABC News affiliate - KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she co-anchored newscasts of the 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. She covered many interesting stories including historic and devastating Cerro Grande Fire, which destroyed hundreds of homes in Los Alamos. She managed to take an exclusive interview with then-President Bill Clinton during his visit to the Navajo Nation of Shiprock in May 2000. She received many awards from Associate Press while working at KOAT-TV. She covered a series 'Red and Green' exposing Albuquerque’s best and worst restaurants for Food safety. The series was awarded by Press Association.
Wednesday Child
In 2011, Cynthia started producing and anchoring segments, 'Wednesday’s Child' which help abused and neglected children to find a loving and safe home.
She is also an active member in the Board of Directors for TexProtects - The Texas Association for the Protection of Children.
She is on a mission to fight for the most vulnerable children in the communities.[2] [18][19][20]
This is what she says about it.. [12]
"I feel I can understand the feeling of abandonment.
My father was not with us for seven years of my life.
We have since re-established a relationship, but for those seven years, being raised by a single mother, I realize now how much I needed a father and how much that impacted my life.
I think that’s why I want to help children who don’t have either parent.
I can help them when we’re doing a “Wednesday’s Child” report.
Sometimes I’ll tell the children I can understand them because my father was gone, and I realize now how painful that was."