Emmy award winning journalist Valerie Morris is the former Business Anchor for CNN domestic and international. She provided these services for CNN for eleven years. Her core interest and passion is financial literacy for women and people of color, two of the most disenfranchised segments of the population concerning money issues. Morris continues to write and narrate the nationally syndicated radio column which she created in 1986 called "With the Family in Mind" - that focuses on family and sandwich generation issues and their money implications. These segments air on CBS Network Radio three times a week. Morris' broadcast career spans more than 35 years and includes both coasts. She came to CNN in 1996 from WPIX-TV in New York where she was both a general assignment reporter and weekend anchor. She began her career as a broadcast journalist in San Francisco where she worked for KRON-TV and KGO-TV as a researcher, general assignment reporter and ultimately an anchor. Morris was also the morning drive anchor at KCBS Radio in San Francisco and midday anchor at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles. She has received a roster of awards including three California Emmy awards for both breaking news events and special reports. She was a major contributor to KCBS-Radio's Peabody Award team coverage as co-anchor in the days immediately following the 1989 California earthquake in which a portion of the San Francisco Bay Bridge collapsed. Valerie, a product of an Air Force family, was raised in England, France, Scotland and Japan. She has two adult daughters, is the very proud grandmother of two "grand littles" and lives in Tucson, Arizona with her husband, Robert L. Morris, Jr., an emerging markets strategist and subject matter expert for LIMRA.