BIANCA RAE

Bianca Rae is an Emmy and LA Press Club winning journalist as well as the Founder and CEO of BR Media, a professional media training company. She is currently on-air at CBS Los Angeles, and before that was the evening news anchor of Spectrum News Los Angeles. She started her TV career as the morning anchor of KESQ in Palm Springs. She is also the founder and CEO of the Bianca Rae Foundation, a non-profit underprivileged children. 

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Bianca calls upon nearly 15 years of journalism experience as the foundation of her media training company, BR Media. She used her experience interviewing the biggest celebrities and politicians int he world, and everyday people as well, to train executives on how to speak to the media, increase their media coverage, and increase their company's brand messaging. 

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Bianca was awarded the 416th star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars for her humanitarian work in Southern California, the youngest recipient in history. She won an Emmy for her role as host of Spectrum News' Oscars TV special. Bianca also has own numerous LA Press Club awards. She was chosen as one of Palm Springs Life’s ’40 Under 40′ most successful people in the Coachella Valley in 2014. CV Weekly named her one of 2016’s Top 12 Most Interesting and Influential Women of the Coachella Valley. She was also voted Best TV Personality in Palm Springs three times, by CV Weekly and by Coachella Valley Independent.

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At just 24 years old, Bianca founded the Bianca Rae Foundation to mentor and serve underprivileged tweens and teens. The foundation's signature program is the Rae of Hope Retreat, as annual leadership retreat for middle school children, focusing on self-esteem building, social media safety and anti-bullying. Now in its 11th year, more than 5000 children have attended these retreats to date. 

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Bianca is a member of the Junior League of Los Angeles and LA Women in Film.

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A 2011 graduate of the University of Missouri, Bianca received a dual degree in Broadcast Journalism and Spanish as well as a minor in Sociology. She is a bilingual journalist who anchored and reported for KOMU-8, the NBC affiliate in Columbia, Missouri for three years. She also interned at KTLA, E! Entertainment and Fox Sports in Los Angeles.