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Dion Lim Profile
Dion Lim is an American Anchor and Reporter currently working at KGO-TV ABC7 News. At the station, she serves as an Anchor and Reporter. She joined the news team in October 2017.
Dion Lim Age
Lim is 31 years as of 2023, she was born on the 13th of May 1992 in Michigan, in the United States of America. Additionally, she celebrates her birthday on 13th May every year.
Dion Lim Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 4 inches tall (1.6m)
Dion Lim Family
She was born and raised in Michigan by her caring and loving parents. Lim’s family migrated from Hong Kong and Taiwan and relocated to America. Her father worked in a chemist’s shop.
Dion Lim Husband
Lim is married to her boyfriend Evan Panesis after a long affair in June 2011. Evan proposed to Lim in 2009 after dating for a long time. The couple got married after being engaged for two years. They first met when Lim developed a crime story in the area. She asked Evan for the story after he screamed to interview like a stalker.
Evan contacted Dion via email after he had read the story online. After some thought, Dion asked Evan later on a date. Evan is a professional poker player by profession and also a graduate of the Isenberg School of Management, North Carolina.
Dion Lim Book – Make Your Moment
Lim is the author of the book Makes Your Moment. In her book, she guides you via what she has learned on the career battlefield and what it means for other working women today. Lim will you through the treacherous and often entertaining landscape of the modern workplace covering virtually every situation you’re likely to experience
Dion Lim Career
Her first day at ABC7 started with an engineer handing her a big red bag that contained my fireproof suit, a helmet, and a face mask. Dumbfounded, she stood there staring at the bag and asked herself: “What has she gotten herself into!?”. The North Bay fires had just broken out and within an hour, she was in the epicenter of the destruction. The adrenaline kicked in. From neighborhoods of multi-million dollar homes to mobile home parks, the flames showed no mercy.
Fire victims were stumbling through the street, dazed and covered in thick black ash. The air was so thick with smoke, that it burned your lungs and tears would stream down your face. Despite the chaos and gut-wrenching sadness, being able to tell their stories was an honor and a privilege and it reminded her of why she got into this TV news business in the first place.
The path to ABC7 News began when she was just a child, and her parents, two immigrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan wanted her to learn how to speak “proper” English. They would sit her in front of the TV to watch ABC’s 20/20. Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters were her heroes. Former mentors, starting from her high school TV teacher, Mr. Lewis, to another Mr. Lewis who was, at the time, news director at a station in Hartford, Connecticut assisted her in starting as a student reporter.
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From there, the business brought her to Springfield, Massachusetts as a bureau reporter, then Kansas City as a weekend, and from there weekday morning anchor, primary evening anchor, and reporter in Charlotte, and most recently, main anchor and reporter in Tampa Bay. The journey has taken her from ground zero after hurricanes and tornadoes to broadcasting in a booth next to Michelle Obama at the Democratic National Convention, and to Hollywood for red-carpet TV show premieres.
She has no Emmy awards but she is proud to have been voted “Best Morning Anchor” and “Best TV Personality” by different publications in Kansas City and Charlotte, and then named one of the nation’s top 18 leaders under 34 in TV by Broadcast & Cable Magazine. Having those roles allowed her to pursue community involvement projects, such as developing programs for women’s professional groups and students revolving around the theme of laughter, empowerment, and being authentic.
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Using those platforms, she shares her struggles in navigating a very competitive business as a minority woman. She has contributed to the Huffington Post written a series for Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls website, and signed on last year as an author for Full Circle Literary. During her free time, you’ll find her with friends exploring all the amazing food available in the Bay Area.
Moreover, volunteer, travel around the world, and act as an ambassador for the non-profit Best Buddies. Her husband, a professional poker player and she are the parents of a Miniature Dachshund named Daphne and a Yorkie named Georgie. Fun Fact: She has a sushi roll named after me at The Cowfish restaurant in Charlotte, Atlanta, and inside Universal Studios City Walk…and yes. her parents were big Dionne Warwick fans!
Dion Lim Salary
She has an estimated annual salary of $30,000 to $80,000 from her career at KGO-TV ABC7.
Dion Lim Net Worth
Lim has an estimated annual salary of $ 1 million to $5 million earned from her career as an Anchor and Reporter.
Dion Lim Social Media Platforms
Lim is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. She has 40.5k followers on Twitter, 77.3k followers on Instagram, and 54k followers on Facebook.
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