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Micki Flowers serves as the "Health Specialist" for KIRO 7 Eyewitness News, a position she has held since 1987. Her reports take an in-depth look at the latest information in the health and medical fields. This is Micki's third position with KIRO 7; from 1982 to 1985, she was a weathercaster on KIRO News at Noon and from 1973 to 1977, she was an anchor/reporter.

A graduate of the University of Washington, Micki has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications. She is extremely active in the Pacific Northwest community, volunteering her time to advocate for numerous non-profits, and to mentor aspiring young journalists. Her current affiliations include: Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Member and Public Relations Chair; AIDS Housing of Washington Board Member and Chair of Fund raising Committee; Black Journalists Association of Seattle Board Member and Scholarship Committee Chair; National Association of Black Journalists; National Association of Television and Radio Artists; The Seattle Chapter of The Links, Inc.; Junior League of Seattle Sustaining Member, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Scripps College in Claremont, California.

Flowers is a four time Sigma Delta Chi Award winner, the 1990 winner of the Camio Award for reporting on mental illness, and the winner of the 1992 Delta Society Media Award. She has also won Best of the West awards for reports dealing with cancer. Flowers has been nominated seven times for an Emmy award. In 1994, Big Sisters of King County recognized Flowers with the Leadership Award for Professions, and in 1998, Flowers received First Place Honors from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for reporting the disease.

In 1997, Flowers was recognized as the best contributor to women's health information by WHERE. In that same year, Flowers and her husband Robert were given the Citizen of the Year Award by the Municipal League of King County, and both received the Nordstrom Award for Outstanding Community Service.

Flowers and her husband Robert live in Seattle.