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Place of Birth: Kenya
About Zain Verjee
- Zain Verjee (born February 11, 1974) is journalist who was born and raised in Kenya.
- She is a former CNN anchor and correspondent, and has made a transition into the world of communications and creative entrepreneurship.
- Her communications firm, Zain Verjee Group, has worked with Bloomberg Media, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Equity Group Foundation of Kenya, World Health Organization, The MiSK Foundation, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa on their communications and public relations. Verjee is also a startup founder and content creator, co-founding aKoma Media, a continental network of workspaces for Africa’s creative and cultural economy, in 2015.
- Her other ventures include Amplify, a content creator fellowship with participants from East/West Africa and the US, in partnership with MasterCard Foundation.
- Verjee resides in the Los Angeles area and Nairobi, Kenya.
- She spent 14 years at CNN as an anchor and correspondent, living in Atlanta, Washington DC and London.
- Prior to leaving CNN in April 2014, Verjee was the anchor of CNN International's European daytime program "World One".
- She worked as a newsreader for The Situation Room, as a State Department correspondent, and as a co-anchor of CNN International's Your World Today with Jim Clancy.
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