Christina DeFranco is an Emmy award-winning journalist whose career spans 20 years in broadcast news. Her career began in 1990 at a small cable station in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She then went on to work in television markets from upstate New York to New Haven, Connecticut, covering everything from the prospect of the Patriots moving to Hartford to the existence of a brain cancer cluster at Pratt and Whitney – a national story that she broke in 2001. Ms. DeFranco has won two Emmys, a Telly, a Communicator Award, an Accolade,  a New York Festival Award, Associated Press Honors, and multiple citations from Connecticut’s Society for Professional Journalists.

In addition to her journalistic reporting, in 2007 Christina produced her first independent documentary Darkest Hours: The Crisis in Children’s Mental Health Care, an in-depth look at society’s most vulnerable medical patients: children with mental illness. This powerful documentary sheds light on how kids have been forced to cope with a fragmented system that hurts them and the families who love them. In 2008, Ms. DeFranco produced Aston’s Army: A Swim Team Legacy, the inspiring story of High School Swim Coach Ed Aston. Christina is currently serving as the environmental contributor on the new Connecticut Public Television magazine show All Things Connecticut and she has created an environmental series entitled Shades of Green: New England that is currently in production.

Shades of Green: New England will showcase “green” companies that have a positive impact on our environment by putting “planet before profits.”

Ms. DeFranco served as reporter at WTNH-TV, ABC (New Haven, CT) from 1996-2001, where she reported live for the nightly news. Prior to that, she was a reporter and anchor for WTIC-TV, Fox (Hartford, CT) from 1993-1996. There she produced, wrote and reported on a 30-minute documentary, Saving Connecticut Schools: A Private Lesson.

Christina is now President and CEO of Danolas Productions, a video production company in Avon, CT. She holds a BA from Duke University. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two sons.

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