About Michelle
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Michelle Li is an anchor and reporter for NBC-affiliate KING-TV in Seattle. She serves as a host for Take 5, an innovative, interactive news show weekdays at 4 p.m.
Previously, Michelle worked as the primary evening anchor for legacy stations in Wisconsin, the Coastal Carolinas and Southwest Missouri.
Michelle has been recognized for leading innovation and audience engagement projects in newsrooms. Google, Poynter and Facebook have showcased her work in newsrooms across the country.
She has received four national Murrow awards and 9 regional Emmys. Congress also honored her with an Angels in Adoption award for her dedication to international and domestic adoption causes. As a Korean adoptee, Michelle spent many summers volunteering with adoptive families and in orphanages in Seoul. She launched a television program in Missouri to help foster kids find more permanent solutions and spoke at the National Press Club for international adoption awareness.
Michelle's more notable recognition includes 5 regional Emmys for interactivity in Chicago and Nashville, national Murrows for innovation and feature writing, regional Murrows for social media and innovation, Social Media Personality of the Year for Wisconsin, two regional Murrows for writing, and Anchor of the Year of the Carolinas.
Michelle grew up in a rural area near Kansas City and studied journalism at the University of Kansas. Her hobbies are mostly cooking and volunteering, and she loves being a home body with her husband Jim, their son James, and their dog Minnie. Jim is an Emmy-award winning photographer who now works as a developer for a news corporation. For fun, Michelle once played a reporter in the movie 'Tammy' and on the TV show 'The Following'.
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