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<p>Ashleigh Banfield is a Canadian <a href="/biography/ashleigh-banfield">news anchor</a> currently working at CNN in New York. She is an Emmy Award <a href="/biography/ashleigh-banfield">winner</a> who has covered numerous breaking news stories both nationally and internationally. Prior to joining CNN, she was a <a href="/biography/ashleigh-banfield">correspondent</a> at ABC News, contributing to Good Morning America, Nightline, and 20/20.</p>

<h2>Background</h2>

<p>Ashleigh Banfield was born in 1967 in Manitoba, Canada. She is known as a news anchor and currently works at CNN, based in New York. Ashleigh's parents are Elizabeth and John; her mother is from Holland and her father is Canadian. On October 24, 2008, Ashleigh became a naturalized U.S. citizen.</p>

<h2>Early Life and Education</h2>

<p>Ashleigh attended Balmoral Hall School, a university preparatory school in Manitoba, and finished in 1985. She then graduated from Queen's University with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and French. She decided to continue her education and later studied Advanced French at the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1992.</p>

<h2>A Distinct Journalist</h2>

<p>Ashleigh is an Emmy Award-winning news anchor who has covered countless breaking news stories across the nation and internationally. Her distinct journalistic style makes her the perfect fit for any news station. Before joining CNN, she was a correspondent at ABC News, contributing to Good Morning America, Nightline, and 20/20.</p>

<p>Banfield is renowned for her bold statements that are both contentious and laudatory since she began her career in the national media. Off-screen, she is a laid-back individual who prefers to spend her free time heli-skiing and sleeping. She is recognized for her iconic rectangular eyeglasses, a signature that has garnered attention since she joined the national media scene as a news anchor.</p>

<p>Ashleigh had refractive lens exchange surgery while she was on vacation. It was the first time in two decades that she could function without wearing her signature glasses. The surgery essentially replaces the natural lens of the human eye with an artificial lens, making it possible to see without needing reading glasses.</p>

<h2>Overcoming NBC</h2>

<p>Ashleigh was once at the bottom of the totem pole in her industry. She didn't have her own office, a phone, or a computer. For ten months, she had to go to work every day and ask where she could sit and if she could use someone else's desk if they didn't show up that day. After those ten months, she was finally given an office, but it was a tape closet. She didn't mind, though, because at least it was progress for her. They cleared the tapes out of the closet for her and put a desk, TV, a computer, and a phone in the small room.</p>

<p>She felt there was a lack of appreciation, but they wouldn't let her leave. She remembers begging to be released from her contract for seventeen months, but the NBC News president wouldn't allow it. She asked why they would keep her if she had no use for them. She felt that they kept her under contract so that she couldn't go to another station and make them a success with her skills. She stated that she would never forgive them for what they did, for keeping her in limbo until they decided to let her go.</p>

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<h2>Voice of the Victims</h2>

<p>In 2015, during a CNN broadcast, Ashleigh allowed a sexual assault victim's public statement to speak for itself. She spent the first half hour of her show reading the woman's words on air. The incident occurred at Stanford University at the hands of someone named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner">Brock Turner</a>, who was 23 years old.</p>

<p>She didn't mince words when she read the statement, even including the more graphic parts. The victim had planned to go to a party with her sister, but when she woke up she was covered in dry blood and bandages, not realizing that she had been unconscious the night before. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner">Turner</a> had sexually assaulted her behind a dumpster.</p>

<p>Ashleigh received praise and recognition for her courageous move to read the victim's words on air to educate the audience about sexual assault. According to BuzzFeed, nearly 5 million people read the letter over the weekend. Ashleigh made a strong impact with her broadcast, as she encouraged people to pay attention to the story.</p>

<h2>Relationships</h2>

<p>Ashleigh married Howard Gould, a real estate financier, in 2004. He is the founder of Equator Environmental, a carbon credit trading company. They met while they were both walking their dogs in Central Park; Ashleigh had her two Westies with her, while Gould had his two pugs. The wedding took place on a wooden yacht at the Royal Lake of the Woods Yacht Club in Canada. Their marriage ended in divorce, but they still had two sons, Jay and Ridley.</p>

<p>In 2015, Ashleigh got engaged to her boyfriend of over two years, Chris Haynor. Chris popped the question in August while the pair were on vacation in Ontario, Canada, with Banfield's two young sons.</p>

<h2>Career and Achievements</h2>

<p>Ashleigh began her journalism career in 1988 while she was still living in Canada. She initially joined as a reporter at CJBN in Ontario, then moved to CKY station, and later to CFRN in Alberta. Banfield then shifted to CICT-TV and did freelance work as an associate producer for the World News Tonight Show at ABC. She covered many summits in Russia, Vancouver, and the United States. She also worked for KDFW-TV and later joined MSNBC. She then moved on to truTV before joining ABC News.</p>

<p>While working for the Fox affiliate KDFW-TV, she received the Emmy Award for Best News Anchor in appreciation of her reporting on the "Cadet Killers." She also received the Texas Associated Press Award for the "To Serve and Survive" series. She received Emmy Awards for her coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks for NBC News. She has produced and created the popular prime time series Disorder in the Court for truTV. She won the National Headliner Award for her reporting on terrorism from 2001 to 2004, covering countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and Israel.</p>

<p>She also won the IRIS Awards for Best of Festival and Best News Documentary categories in 1994. She quit her popular early morning show, Early Start on CNN, and replaced <a href="/biography/kyra-phillips">Kyra Phillips</a> as the anchor of the 11 AM show.</p>

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