Education
She obtained her bachelor"s degree in government from Connecticut College.
She obtained her bachelor"s degree in government from Connecticut College.
She can be seen weekdays anchoring the midday news at noon. Tarantal also reports for NewsCenter 5 Eyeopener. Tarantal was raised in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.
As mentioned on Sunday Today in New York on April 3, 2011, she is a vegetarian.
Prior to joining WCVB in February 2014. Tarantal served as co-anchor for W National Broadcasting Company"s News 4 New York at 6pm and 11pm on weekends and as a General Assignment Reporter filing stories for various News 4 New York newscasts during the week.
Tarantal left W National Broadcasting Company in January, 2014. Tarantal joined W National Broadcasting Company as a general assignment reporter in December 2007.
In October 2005, she was employed at WVIT in Hartford, Connecticut, where she served as a weekend evening anchor and weekday General Assignment Reporter.
Before her career in broadcast journalism, she worked as a paralegal for the Office of the Attorney General in Boston. Tarantal is the daughter of Stephen M. Tarantal, a painter and dean of the College of Art and Design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her mother, Elsa Johnson, is a sculptor and a professor at the same university.
