A native of
Marblehead, Massachusetts, Bonner graduated from
Northeastern University with a bachelor's degree in English in 1994. and also worked in
Manchester, New Hampshire, and
Bangor, Maine. She then was a sports anchor/reporter at
KRIV in
Houston from 1997 to 1999. Bonner was the main sports anchor at Los Angeles'
KCOP-TV from 1999 to 2002. In 2000, she earned an Emmy award for "Best Newscast". Bonner won the
Edward R. Murrow Award of Excellence in Journalism in 2001 On May 14, 2012, it was announced that Bonner and ESPN had decided to part ways after seven years.
Post-ESPN Bonner now runs her own public relations consulting group. ==References==