Sade Baderinwa
Sade came to Channel 7 from Baltimore's WBAL-TV, where she anchored the morning and noon newscasts and hosted a weekly community affairs show. Earlier in her career, she was a reporter for WSLS in Roanoke, Virginia; a reporter trainee at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C.; and a production assistant for ABC News' This Week with David Brinkley, Nightline, World News Tonight, and ABC News NewsOne.
Sade is a big believer in giving back to her community. She has worked with numerous Tri-State area organizations, community leaders and students. After being struck by a hit and run driver while covering a story for Eyewitness News, Sade championed efforts to deal with the growing problem of hit and run accidents. For her efforts, she was recognized with the NJ Governor's Representative Award for Traffic Safety.
She has also created and developed a successful mentoring program called "Get 'Reel' With Your Dreams: The Inside Track." It exposes high school students from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut to top professionals in film and television. Her partners in this initiative include The Walt Disney Company, WABC-TV, Lincoln Center Institute and New York Women in Film and Television.
Sade is a native of Baltimore and a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park.
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A street in Brooklyn has been dubbed the most dangerous in all of New York City, and in an Eyewitness News exclusive, anchor Sade Baderinwa walked it with NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill.
Have you noticed that Eyewitness News Anchor Sade Baderinwa has been missing from the air? She decided to fill in viewers by posting about it on Facebook.
Two transgender students at a high school in upstate New York say they were kicked off a school bus by a driver who tried to separate the students by gender.
Smart, confident and bold women who are breaking barriers were in abundance Wedneday at "WE Day" United Nations.
It was a fun Saturday at WABC! The station hosted young people who are thinking about careers in television and film to give them advice on how to break into the industry. They were at our Channel 7 studios on the Upper West Side for the 9th annual 'Get Reel with your Dreams' program.
