Alicia Acuna Biography
Alicia Acuna is a FOX News Channel Senior Correspondent based in Denver, Colorado. She often serves as the guest host of FOX News Live. She has worked at the network for 25 years and has worked as a rotating panelist on Big Saturday Show and Big Sunday Show.
Alicia Acuna Age
Acuna is 52 years old, she was born in 1970 in Whittier, California, United States but grew up in Arizona. She celebrates her birthday on May 27.
Alicia Acuna Height
Alicia stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches tall.
Alicia Acuna Education
Acuna attended high school at Tucson High Magnet School. She then enrolled at Northern Arizona University for her undergraduate studies, she graduated with a Bachelors degree in Journalism and Broadcasting in 1993.
Alicia Acuna Family
Alicia was born in Whittier, California by her Mexican-American parents. She revealed that her parents divorced when she was 13 and her father moved to San Diego, California. She stayed between homes as during school days she stayed with her mother in Arizona and during holidays she went to live with her father in California. She was brought up alongside his younger brother.
Alicia Acuna Ethnicity
Alicia is of Hispanic ethnicity. Her parents both identify as Chicano- Chicano are people of Mexican descent born in the United States.
Alicia Acuna Eye
Alicia has one eye which is smaller than the other one which people mistake for a lazy eye. A twitter user once commented saying they love her lazy her which she clarified that she technically doesn’t have a lazy eye but rather one is simply smaller than the other one.
Alicia Acuna Husband
Alicia is married to Brian Daniel Boyd since April 2004. The couple met in the early 2000s and they began dating. There is no public information regarding their wedding as it seems like it was an intimate ceremony. There is no information available regarding Brian’s career. However, he is a cancer survivor. He was diagnosed with cancer shortly after they got married but was declared cancer free on May 2009 after finishing treatment.
Alicia Acuna Children
Alicia and her husband have two children together, a daughter named Sofia Orozco born on April 14, 2004 and a son named Mario Orozco born on September 2006. She is also a stepmother to Brian’s three sons; Noah, Daniel, and Adian Boyd. from his previous marriage.
On March 22, 2023 she made headlines when he hugged her son on air while she was reporting live on a shooting at Denver East High School. She was outside East High School in Denver, Colorado reporting after a student opened fire on school administrators during a search. Her son who is a student there emerged and she had to hug her. She explained that she wouldn’t ignore him and added that he was the one updating her from the inside.
Alicia Acuna FOX News
Alicia is a senior correspondent for Fox News Channel based in Denver, Colorado. She joined the network in September 1997 and guest hosts FOX News Live as well as a rotating panelist on Big Saturday Show and Big Sunday Show.
During her tenure, she has covered a variety of breaking news stories and has played an integral role in FNC’s political coverage. She has covered the 2022 Midterm Election, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Democracy 2020 election. She has also covered the coronavirus pandemic, wildfires in the Western United States, the opioid crisis, the Ebola outbreak and also covered the wake of the devastating May 2013 EF5 tornado reporting live from Moore, Oklahoma, among other events.
Prior to joining FNC, she was a weekday anchor/reporter for KSEE-TV (NBC) in Fresno, California where she anchored the 5 p.m. newscast. She was also a weekend anchor/reporter for KGET-TV (NBC) in Bakersfield, California where she anchored the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts. She was the runner-up for the 1997 APTRA reporter of the year award and conducted a fellowship at the CBS News national headquarters.
Alicia Acuna Salary
Alicia earns an annual base salary of $60,000.
Alicia Acuna Net worth
Acuna has an estimated net worth of $2 million.