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Monique Ming Laven is an anchor and reporter for KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. She joined KIRO 7 in June of 2006.

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Coming to work for KIRO 7 marked a sort of homecoming for Monique. Being a native of Northern California, she is happy to make her long-awaited return to the West Coast and her family after a professional tour of duty in the Midwest.

Before joining the KIRO team, Monique worked as an evening anchor and reporter at WCMH in Columbus, Ohio. During her time there she covered several national stories, including the 2004 presidential election for which Ohio was the key swing state. Before working in Columbus, Monique was a main anchor and reporter in Madison, Wisconsin. While at WKOW, she covered the terrorist attacks in New York City immediately after 9/11. She also accompanied a Wisconsin-based medical mission down to Rivas, Nicaragua, and she reported on the Heartland AIDS Ride, bicycling from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Chicago, Illinois (560 miles in six days). Monique's first broadcast job was in Lawrence, Kansas, where she did everything but sweep the floor.

Monique has received the Edward R. Murrow Award for Best News Series and the Associated Press Award for Best Documentary, among other awards for sports reporting, feature writing, and spot news.

Monique has made a practice of living in cities with universities (Kansas Jayhawks, Wisconsin Badgers, Ohio State Buckeyes), but this is the first time she's settled into the turf of a Pac-10 rival; she is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of University of California Berkeley. One of her favorite memories is watching the "Battle for the Roses" game between Cal and UW in 1991. Although the Huskies pulled it out, she cherished cheering on Cal alongside her grandfather, another Golden Bear and her favorite game day date.

Monique lives in Seattle with her two darling but dim-witted cats. When not at work, she's usually reading, traveling, eating or cycling.

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