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A Little Closer to Home: How I Found the Calm After the Storm

Thursday, November 10  |  7:30 – 9:30 a.m.

Ginger Zee is the chief meteorologist at ABC News, reporting on the nation’s weather on “Good Morning America” and across ABC News broadcasts and digital platforms. Since joining ABC News, Zee has covered almost every major weather event and dozens of historic storms. She broadcasted from the devastated Jersey Shore during Hurricane Sandy, the Colorado floods and wildfires, and she covered the aftermath of tornados in Moore and El Reno, Oklahoma.

Zee’s passion does not stop with storm chasing. Her love of adventure has taken her and ABC News viewers across the world. She has gone parahawking in Nepal, flown a drone into the fissure of a volcano in Iceland, hiked the largest cave in the world in Vietnam, paraglided from the Himalayas to the Andes, dove with sharks in the Bahamas, rappelled 27 stories down the exterior façade of the Wit Hotel in Chicago, and competed on “Dancing with the Stars.”

Ginger is open about her mental health struggles that went undiagnosed until she checked herself into a mental health hospital 10 days before starting her job at ABC. Despite the dysfunction, self-doubt, and turmoil, Ginger has managed to build a remarkable career and family.

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Ginger Zee

Chief Meteorologist, ABC News
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