Background
She was born and raised along the Arizona-Mexico border, Santana earned a bachelor"s degree from Northern Arizona University in journalism and broadcast production in 1993.
She was born and raised along the Arizona-Mexico border, Santana earned a bachelor"s degree from Northern Arizona University in journalism and broadcast production in 1993.
Santana began her professional career in radio, and then shifted to television, taking a job at KNAZ-television in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she worked from 1992 until September 1993. Santana then worked as a weekday news anchor at KOLD-television in Tucson, Arizona from 1993 until 1996. From 1996 until October 2001, Santana was a weekend anchor and primary weekday fill-in anchor at WNYW-television in New York City, which she left when she and management could not come to terms and her contract was not renewed.
In January 2002, Santana joined WBBM-TV-television in Chicago as the station"s weekend co-anchor.
In 2004, Santana became a producer, writer and narrator for Morgan Howard Productions, a visual communications company in Kirkland, Washington.