Aug 15: Naomi Yané - Emerging African Young Professionals

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Aug 15: Naomi Yané - Emerging African Young Professionals

This episode looks into Naomi Yané’s career in journalism and her journey as a young professional and Congolese American in New York City. Naomi Yané is a TV personality on New York 1 TV Station.

Naomi Yané joined NY1 as a traffic reporter in July of 2010. She previously worked as a traffic producer with Metro Networks/Shadow Traffic at WCBS-TV. Prior to that, she interned as a reporter and writer at the United Nations English-language radio unit. Yané is a New York native with roots in The Democratic Republic of the Congo. She speaks four languages and is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.