On The Move - Kristina Guerrero
El Barrio: Los A ngeles
Trabajo: Journalist
From a childhood gathering buckets of
cherries on a farm at 4am to a career
of gathering stories for E! News every
morning, Kristina Guerrero personifies
the cliché that hard work and determination
can get you whatever you want out
of life. But as the first Latina host on E! her new position holds more significance
than just personal acclaim.
“It’s amazing to be able to represent
my culture on a mainstream network,”
she says. “It’s such an honor for me but
a huge responsibility too. But I’m wiling
to take it on.”
She says fellow Mexican George Lopez
was her favorite interview since she’s
been at E!. She randomly saw Lopez
outside of her house one morning and a
week later interviewed him for the ALMA
awards. The two are neighbors.
Kristina grew up in a small farm town in
Washington State where lots of Mexican
migrant workers pick cherries and work in
asparagus fields. But with some foresight
and a firm grip on goals she never let her
surroundings dictate her future. Though
she helped out working in the fields her
mother stressed education while Kristina
dreamt about interviewing Hollywood’s
biggest stars on red carpets.
Despite some skepticism from her family,
she left Washington for Hollywood at
age 18. She says that her mom and four
siblings thought she was a little crazy
but she didn’t have any delusions of
overnight stardom. She enrolled in the
University of Southern California to study
journalism, aspiring for a career in broadcast.
She started as an intern at LA’s Fox KTTV and after soldiering through the collegiate servitude got her first big break landing a co-host spot on a talk show The Rub. After The Rub she left LA to host her own CBS morning talk show in San Antonio, Great Day S.A.
Now she’s back in LA enjoying her job
with E!.
“It’s been an amazing journey for me,” she says, “because I really came from nothing. Sometimes I still amaze myself and I’m like holy shit how did I get here? I told everyone I was gonna do it and I actually did it.”
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