Monica Dean Biography
Monica Dean is an American journalist who is an Emmy award-winning anchor/reporter for NBC7 San Diego. She anchors NBC 7’s weekday newscasts at 4 & 5 and delivers NBC7’s “Inspiring San Diego” news reports. She joined the NBC 7 San Diego news team in June 2004 and won her first Emmy for her report on the migrant worker camps in Carmel Valley in 2006. Dean was also awarded an Emmy for team coverage of the 2007 San Diego Firestorms and for coverage of the 2016 riots at the Donald Trump Rally in downtown San Diego.
Monica Dean Age
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Monica Dean Career | NBC 7
Monica’s first job in TV news was working behind the scenes at KTTV FOX-11 News in Los Angeles, CA. She got her to start on-air as the Washington D.C. political correspondent for WCAX, the CBS affiliate in Burlington, VT. While in the Nation’s Capital Monica was also the television health reporter for an eight-station newsgroup stretching across the United States. Dean came to NBC7 San Diego after more than two years in Bakersfield, CA where she was an anchor/reporter at the CBS/FOX affiliates. Monica received several awards from the Associated Press and Kern Press Club for her work in Bakersfield.
Monica Dean Personal Life
Dean has lived and worked all over the world, but California has always been her home. Monica grew up in San Diego, the daughter of a Navy Captain and local dental hygienist. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English from UCLA and her master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Chicago.
Monica Dean KNSD Academy
Monica is one of the founders of the KNSD Academy, an experiential learning program at NBC 7 & Telemundo20 that introduces high school students to a career in TV News. She is also featured on NBC 7 and Voice of San Diego’s weekly San Diego Explained reports on NBC 7.
Monica Dean Fun Facts
Dean is passionate about family, faith, and community. She is married and has three young children. Monica loves being a mom and is actively involved in her children’s lives. Monica can often be found volunteering at school; teaching art to elementary students, moderating classroom book clubs, emceeing school events and inspiring future journalists through interactive presentations.
On the weekends Monica is often cheering from the sidelines of her children’s numerous sporting activities and fine arts performances. She and her family attend Canyon Springs Church in Scripps Ranch.
Monica Dean Philanthropy
Dean is also involved with a number of community organizations including GenerateHope, Moms in Prayer Intl., The Red Cross, Rady Children’s Hospital, Christian Media Fellowship, Girl Scouts and the Make-a-Wish Foundation. She frequently emcees fundraising events for local charities and schools.
Dean also enjoys public/motivational speaking; she often talks with local women’s groups and students on a variety of topics. Monica’s other hobbies include traveling, hosting newsroom tours, music, running, arts and crafts and moderating/hosting book clubs for women in her community.
Monica Dean News | Article
Inspiring San Diego: Designer’s Room Makeover Mission Gives Kids Personalized Space to Heal
Some people might call Susan Wintersteen a healthcare worker, but she’s not a doctor or a nurse.
She’s an interior designer and the owner of Savvy Interiors, and her work is helping heal the hearts and spirits of dozens of families at a critical time.
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On this day Wintersteen is at the Lively family home in Lemon Grove where the excitement in the air is building like the moments leading up to Christmas morning. For weeks Wintersteen and her San Diego-based nonprofit Savvy Giving by Design have worked to transform 4-year-old Joshua Lively‘s room. He’s a fan of the PBS KIDS show “Wild Kratts” and his new bedroom is designed with this theme in mind.
Joshua, who the family affectionately calls “Joshy,” is the eldest of three Lively children. The long-anticipated room reveal was especially meaningful on this day because Joshy hadn’t been home for nearly a month.
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The sign that hangs on the front of the Lively’s cheerful-looking home gives even strangers a clue about the challenges this family is facing. It says that a child with a compromised immune system lives there, and advises visitors to cleanse their hands and asks those with recent illness respectfully not to enter.
Joshy has cancer. He was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma on Thanksgiving Day 2018. In the months that followed, Joshy underwent chemotherapy and multiple surgeries and battled through complications that put him back in the hospital, sometimes for weeks at a time. That’s why this particular day was so extra special — Joshy was finally home after nearly a month in the hospital and was awaiting the reveal of a gift that would give him and his family a sense of hope and joy along their challenging road.
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That joy and excitement are what fuel Wintersteen’s passion for using her talents as an interior designer to help children like Joshy.
“It gives me a perspective that I was really lacking after so many years working in design,” Wintersteen said. “It gave me a chance to not only use what I know instinctively as a designer I need to do but to have an impact on this child’s healing more long term.”
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Her mission of using creative and functional design to help provide healing spaces for kids in need first began when her family friend’s child was diagnosed with cancer.
“The joke in our family is that I don’t cook so I wasn’t going to sign up for the meal train,” she said. “So, I said I would love to come in and maybe make her space a little bit better and see what we might be able to do to lift her spirits.”
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The reality was that the room transformation had an impact far greater than Wintersteen could have ever imagined.
“They’ve got their doctors and their nurses and their treatment and their family, their friends and their cousins, and we are this little sliver, but for that little sliver we’re trying to create a space that invites all of those other elements in and makes it easier for them to go through that treatment or to heal,” she said.
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With the help of generous donations of time, money and products, the Savvy Giving team began helping other kids. In four years Wintersteen and her team have transformed at least 45 rooms.
“I draw a huge amount of inspiration from these kids because they’ve been through so much at such a young age,” she said.
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