HLN Anchor/"What Matters" HLN & CNN Host - Richelle Carey

Richelle Carey serves as a weekday anchor for HLN. She also hosts "What Matters," weekly segments on HLN and CNN that spotlight the top issues and concerns facing the African-American community. She joined CNN in 2006 and is based in the network’s world headquarters in Atlanta.

Carey came to HLN from KMOV in St. Louis, where she anchored the "News 4 This Morning" show since 2003. Before St. Louis, Carey also anchored the morning news for KVVU-TV in Las Vegas and KETK-TV in Tyler, Texas. Carey has also served as a military reporter in Waco, Texas, at KWTX-TV. She began her career as an associate producer for KPRC-TV in Houston.

Carey's notable reporting assignments have included covering Fort Hood in Texas, the largest military installation in the world. She also spent a week in Bosnia completing a four-part series on the work of soldiers in the 1st U.S. Cavalry stationed there. She has also been awarded the "Women Changing the World" award from Texas College and won an Emmy for consumer features reporting while at KMOV. She currently serves on the board of Men Stopping Violence, an organization dedicated to ending men's violence against women.

Carey is a graduate of Baylor University with a degree in telecommunications.