Sunlen Serfaty
Sunlen Serfaty
Sunlen Mari Serfaty (née Sunlen Mari Miller, born April 6, 1981) is an Emmy award-winning journalist and national correspondent. Sunlen Serfaty works for CNN and is based in Washington, DC.
Education
Sunlen Serfaty is a graduate of the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University with a B.A. in International Affairs and a concentration in Media and Communication.
Career
Before arriving at CNN, Sunlen Serfaty worked as a White House and U.S. Senate reporter for ABC News and covered President Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign. Her work was featured on the network's overnight show World News Now, as well as on the network's news website. [12]
In partnership with the ABC News affiliate in Washington, D.C,WJLA-TV, Serfaty also served as a local general assignment reporter on the weekends, covering breaking news stories, as well as feature stories for the ABC News affiliate in the top ten market of the Washington, D.C..-metro area. She also worked as an associate producer of television and radio projects for The Washington Post from May 2003 to September 2004. [12]
Personal Life
Sunlen Serfaty is a daughter of Denise M. Miller and William N. Miller of Midlothian, Virginia. Her father, who works there, is an independent commercial arbitrator and mediator. Her mother is a marketing communications manager in Richmond, Virginia, with a power generation services unit of Alstom, the French transport and power equipment company.[15]
Sunlen Serfaty is married to Alexis Leigh Serfaty, a policy adviser at the office of secretary, United States Department of Transportation. [4] They met in 2006 and began dating. They lost touch for about two years when Sunlen took the responsibility of covering Barack Obama's presidential election campaign in 2008. However, they got back together. [5]
On August 3, 2013, at the age of 32, Sunlen Serfaty and Alexis Leigh Serfaty got married at the Rose Park in Georgetown, the place where they first met. [1]
Alexis is the son of Gail F. Serfaty and Simon H. Serfaty of Washington.
His mother retired as the director overseeing the operations of the diplomatic reception rooms at the State Department in Washington, and as the curator of the President's Guest House residence. His father, a senior professor of United States foreign policy at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, also holds the Zbigniew Brzezinski Emeritus Chair in Global Security and Geopolitics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.[15]
In May 2017, the couple welcomed their daughter, Roosevelt Jolie Serfaty.
The girl name's meaning, "rose field," is a nod to the couple’s very favorite spot, Rose Park.[14]