Tanya Rivero is the host of Good Morning America Health. She has filed reports for Good Morning America

Good Morning America

Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...

 and anchored World News Now

World News Now

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 and America This Morning.
Before joining ABC News in October 2007, she was a reporter and fill-in anchor for WCBS-TV

WCBS-TV

WCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS television network, located in New York City. The station's studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center and its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building, both in Midtown Manhattan....

 (CBS 2) in New York City

New York City

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, the flagship station of CBS Television Network

CBS

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.

She joined WCBS-TV in July 2005 after working for News 12 The Bronx

News 12 Networks

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 and News 12 Brooklyn

News 12 Networks

News 12 Networks comprises seven regional cable news television channels in the New York metropolitan area. The channels offer local news 24-hours a day and reach approximately 3.8 million television households in the tri-state area...

 since June 2004. Before joining News 12 Networks

News 12 Networks

News 12 Networks comprises seven regional cable news television channels in the New York metropolitan area. The channels offer local news 24-hours a day and reach approximately 3.8 million television households in the tri-state area...

, she worked at NY1 News as a newswriter. During college, she worked at ABC News

ABC News

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 as a desk assistant.

She is a graduate of Yale University

Yale University

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 and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. http://www.abcmedianet.com/shows05/news/correspondents/rivero.shtml

Personal life

Rivero grew up in New York

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 where she learned to speak Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 and Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, from her Cuban mother. She attended Manhattan's Professional Children's School

Professional Children's School

Professional Children's School is a not for profit, college preparatory school that was founded in New York City in 1914 to provide an education to young people working on the New York stage, in Vaudeville, or "on the road."-History:...

 and danced professionally with the New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...

under the name Tanya Gingerich.

She has two sons.

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