Natasha Chen is an emmy- award winning journalist based in Atlanta, GA. Natasha Chen is a national correspondent for CNN.

Natasha Chen graduated from San Mateo High School in the class of 2002 as valedictorian. ^[8] She then went on to completed her undergraduate Degree in psychology at Stanford University. ^{[2] [8]}

From 2006 - 2008, she attended University of Southern California receiving an M.A. in broadcast journalism. ^{[8] [2]}

For her graduate thesis, Natasha Chen used her Mandarin to produce a documentary on democracy in Taiwan, featuring an exclusive interview with the Taiwanese president. In 2008, she also followed theUnited States presidential election in the Southwest, which led her to discover Central Texas.^[19]

Natasha Chen began her career in journalism interning at KPIX from April 2006 - August 2006. In 2008, Chen was a General Assignment Intern at ABC News. From 2004 - 2009, she worked as a SAT Instructor and Tutor at Kaplan. From 2008 - 2009, she was an Off the Bus Reporter at The Huffington Post.^[2]

Natasha Chen worked as a reporter and weekend Anchor for KXXV in Killeen, Texas covering breaking news such as the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. ^[8][2] She then moved to WREG-TV in Memphis, also as a reporter from August 2010 to July 2013. ^[8][2]

From 2013 - 2017, Chen was a reporter at KIRO-TV. From 2017 - 2019m she worked as a National Correspondent at CNN Newsource. Since 2019, Chen has been a National Correspondent at CNN.^[2]

Chen received recognition for her reporting with the 2015 Northwest Emmy Award for team coverage as well as the 2008 Simon T. Award for Excellence in Broadcast journalism. ^{[8] [2]}

She is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association.^[19]

In June 2020, Chen said angry protesters broke a CNN camera and harassed her crew while they were trying to protests in Atlanta, where CNN is headquartered. The protests came after Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed in a Wendy's parking by an Atlanta policeman.^[21]

Chen said they were filming angry protesters breaking into the Wendy's and trying to set fire to an umbrella in the patio area when some "angry protesters" tried to block both the CNN camera and Chen's cell phone camera.

She said at that point they got aggressive, broke the CNN camera, and the new crew pulled back.

She said there were both protesters asking why they were trying to block CNN cameras and others egging them on.

She said there were "a lot of different reactions as to whether that was the right choice to go after the Wendy's building.^[21]

On May 24, 2020, Chen was filming a segment in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina when she said a man yelled racist comments at her over her wearing a mask while working. While working on a story about the Memorial Day weekend, a person approached her yelling expletives about her wearing a mask and blaming her for the pandemic. While speaking after the fact on CNN, Chen said:

Natasha Chen was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her brother, Nick Chen, is the CEO and co-founder of Pico^[1]. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and French. ^{[7] [8]}

When she is not reporting, Natasha loves to sing and dance.

She has done musical theater in California, Texas and even Oxford, and directed Stanford Mixed Company a cappella group in college. ^[19]