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Yamiche Leone Alcindor is a renowned African-American journalist and political commentator who hails from Florida. She is known for her numerous achievements in the media industry and her work as a Washington correspondent for NBC News.
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Profile Summary of Yamiche Leone Alcindor
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Full name |
Yamiche Leone Alcindor |
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Date of Birth |
November 1, 1986 |
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Age |
36 years |
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Profession |
Political commentator, journalist |
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Height |
5’7’’ |
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Nationality |
American |
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Annual income |
Not known |
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Net worth |
$1 million to $5 million estimated |
Early Life (Age, Parents, Siblings and Ethnicity)
Yamiche Leone Alcindor was born November 1, 1986 in Miami, Florida. She was born to Haitian-born parents.
Education
During Alcindor’s days in high school, she was doing an internship at Westside Gazette, which is a local African-American newspaper and also at the Miami Herald in 2005.
Yamiche Leone Alcindor headed to Georgetown University, where she pursued and earned a bachelor’s degree in English and government, minoring in African-American studies. She graduated from the university in 2009.
Still, as a student, she was interning at ‘The Seattle Times’ in 2006. She was also a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha, which was a predominantly African-American fraternity.
Yamiche Leone Alcindor further interned with the ‘Miami Herald’ again in 2007, the Botswanan newspaper, the Mmegi, and The Washington Post.
Yamiche Leone Alcindor wanted to be a journalist as much as she was interning at various media agencies, she aspired to be a journalist.
Yamiche Leone Alcindor looked up to the African-American journalist, Gwen Ifill. She graduated the New York University with a master’s degree in Broadcast news and documentary filmmaking.
Career
Yamiche’s first job in her journalism career was her role as a reporter at Newsday, a newspaper in Melville, New York. Yamiche Leone Alcindor worked there for two years and she covered many things including the Haiti earthquake in 2010.
In December 2011 she was a multimedia reporter for USA Today, where she covered national breaking news.
While working with the USA Today newspaper, she covered issues like the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, the Baltimore objections and the Ferguson unrest.
Yamiche Leone Alcindor also appeared on shows such as Morning Joe, PoliticsNation, The Rachel Maddow Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews and also the Meet the Press show.
Yamiche Leone Alcindor also worked as a national political reporter for The New York Times in November 2015. In 2013, she was mentioned as the “Emerging Journalist of the Year”, awarded to her by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Yamiche Leone Alcindor merited a nomination for the Shorty Award in the Journalist category in 2016. During the 2017 edition of “The Root 100”, she rose through the ranks to place 13th.
This event was established by The Root of the most impactful African Americans ages 25 and 45. Alcindor currently working with NBC News as a Washington correspondent since March 2022.
Personal Life
Yamiche Leone Alcindor is married to Nathaniel Cline, a National Association of Black Journalists member. The couple got married in 2018 and they met themselves through the multimedia industry.
Social Media
Yamiche Leone Alcindor is active on social media and her Instagram account has been verified as, “yamichealcindor” and she has 27.1K followers on the account.
She is also on Facebook as “Yaminche Alsindor” and she has over 57K followers on that account also.
Lifestyle
Yamiche Leone Alcindor is a Christian and a Catholic for that matter. She is very fluent in the Haitian Creole language and she loves to speak it even in the course of her work as a journalist although she has worked with a lot of English-speaking countries.
Net Worth
Yamiche Leone Alcindor as a journalist and political commentator is known to have an estimated net worth of $ 1 million to $5 million. She is known to have earned this money throughout her career as a journalist and political commentator.
FAQs
Who is Alcindor Yamiche?
A journalist and political commentator
How old is Alcindor Yamiche?
36 years
Who is Alcindor Yamiche married to?
Nathaniel Cline
