Leslie Barrett is the weekend news anchor and a reporter/videographer for WTAP-TV.
Leslie also produces the Wednesday's Child segment each month which features a child who is waiting for a forever family.
Leslie joined the news team in October 2007 as a reporter/videographer and was promoted to weekend news anchor in August 2009.
Before coming to WTAP-TV, Leslie completed a year of service work with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Washington, DC. During that time she was the housing and donations coordinator for the Catholic Diocese of Arlington Office of Migration and Refugee Services.
Before joining the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, she traveled to Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala and received the Learn, Lead, and Serve grant from the University of Dayton to create a documentary, Seeking a Different Destiny ,about domestic violence.
Prior to that she was the station manager of Flyer-TV, the student-run TV station at the University of Dayton. She worked as producer, anchor, and reporter for the TV station and as a news announcer on Flyer Radio . She co-produced a documentary, Dayton: The City of Peace, that aired at the tenth anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords.
In the summer of 2005 Leslie interned at the CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta. She also interned at the FOX and ABC affiliate in Dayton, OH. During the summer of 2004, she studied abroad in London with the University of Dayton Summer Communication Program.
While at the University of Dayton, Leslie was the vice president of the Mu Lambda Chapter of the Chi Omega Fraternity and participated in the dance ensemble and musicals.
Leslie grew up in New Wilmington, PA and went on to study at the University of Dayton. She graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of art's degree in communication and minors in political science and women's studies. She received the 2006 Bette Rogge Morse Award to the Outstanding Senior Woman in Communication.
Leslie and her husband, Eric, live in the Mid-Ohio Valley.
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