Rita Cosby

RITA COSBY is a renowned TV host and veteran correspondent, who anchored highly-rated primetime shows on Fox News Channel and MSNBC.  She is currently a special correspondent for the top-rated CBS syndicated newsmagazine, Inside Edition.  Honors for the three-time Emmy winner include the Matrix Award and the Jack Anderson Award.  She was also selected by Cosmopolitan Magazine as a "Fun and Fearless Female."  A recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the Lech Walesa Freedom Award, she hosts the National Memorial Day Parade broadcast to all US military installations around the world and has become a key spokeperson for troops and their families suffering from PTSD. Because of her "extraordinary journalism and exemplary service on behalf of her community," October 11th, 2010 was officially named "Rita Cosby Day" in the State of New York. Her first book, Blonde Ambition, was a New York Times bestseller. For more information, visit www.quiethero.org.