10th Anniversary Gala Host - Roz Abrams, Anchor WCBS-TV

Roz Abrams co-anchors CBS 2 News at Noon and 5 PM weekdays along with Mary Calvi. She joined WCBS-TV in April 2004.

Abrams has been a reporter and anchor for almost 30 years, most recently with WABC in New York, where she spent eighteen years. Prior to that, Abrams was with KRON in San Francisco and Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta, where she helped launch CNN.

Most recently, Abrams received a New York Association of Black Journalists Award for the special "The Sounds of Harlem." She has been part of award-winning coverage for some of the biggest stories of our time, including 9/11, the Blackout of 2003, the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the worldwide Aids epidemic.

In December of 2003, Roz was named to the Editorial Advisory Board of 'Making Waves,' the new quarterly publication of American women in radio and television. She is the current co-chair of NY READS TOGETHER.

Abrams has a B.S. degree from Western Michigan University, a Masters Degree from the University of Michigan and an Honoree Doctorate of Humane Letters from New York Institute of Technology.