Nerissa Knight is an Emmy Award-winning Journalist for KTLA 5 News in Los Angeles, California. She is a veteran TV journalist with 23 years broadcast TV news experience and has served as an reporter on news teams at various TV stations across the country.

Nerissa is proudest of her caring family.

Since 18 years of age, she's been hitched to her middle school darling and they have three kids, two son and a little girl.

Having lost her mom to disease as a lone kid at 6 years old and never having met her dad, Nerissa had a wild youth having grown up as an foster child, moving from one relative, companion or stranger’s house to another.

Her challenged childhood and life experiences prompted her life's motto:

Before joining KTLA 5 News, Nerissa was a Journalist for KNBC in Los Angeles, California and co-facilitated its "Today in L.A." weekend show for four years. She additionally invested energy as co-host at KTLA 5 News's sister station KDAF in Dallas facilitating the Tribune Media syndicated pop culture morning show "Eye Opener TV," which airs in other significant places including Houston, Philadelphia and Miami.

Nerissa's broad communicate vocation has taken her to serve as Journalist in different location over the nation like Beaumont, KBTV-TV, Little Rock, Arkansas, KTHV Mobile, WALA-TV, Milwaukee, WDJT-TV, and Dallas, KTVT.

Nerissa is additionally associated with the community and has gone through over 10 years offering grants to extraordinary, meriting students in need.

Her devotion to giving back has been recognized with numerous service awards like the Brookin's Community Service Award, the AIDS Project Los Angeles, California Woman of Empowerment Award and the Purple Bottom Group for abused women service award. Nerissa was likewise recognized by the legislative head of California with a coaching award for her work with youth.

She is a active individual from the National Association of Black Journalists, incorporating with the neighborhood Los Angeles, California part.

She has over 3k followers on her Instagram handle as of 2020.

Her net worth is currently unavailable as of 2020.