Michelle Charlesworth
Since joining the Eyewitness News team in 1998, Michelle has reported news from Israel and the occupied territories to Oscar's Red Carpet, but she is probably best known for her award-winning reports on her personal battle with skin cancer. She has been honored with the prestigious Gold Triangle Award for Journalism.
Michelle is also host of WABC-TV's Emmy Award-winning special programs, Broadway Backstage - a look at the upcoming spring and fall theater seasons, and Above and Beyond - a salute to local high school students and teachers who have made a difference in their schools and communities.
Michelle came to Channel 7 from NBC 17 in Raleigh, North Carolina where she worked as a reporter/anchor. Prior to that she was at WCTI in New Bern, North Carolina and WMGM in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Michelle holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, and studied economics at the University of Freiburg on a full scholarship from the German government. She makes her home in New Jersey with her husband and two children. She loves spending time with her family, playing tennis, going to the beach (in a hat, sunglasses and covered in sunscreen) and cooking and eating Italian food. Her greatest culinary love is her husband's smoked ribs smothered in (from-scratch) BBQ sauce.
Michelle's Stories
Local Muslim and Jewish Iranian-Americans closely watching Iran, Israel strikes
Iranian-American New Yorkers react to aerial attacks between Israel and Iran.
Meet the New Yorkers working to protect the endangered piping plover along our beaches
A group of volunteers is working to protect the piping plover, a vulnerable native bird living along the New York coastline.
West Harlem neighborhood becomes 1st in US to have trash fully containerized
Fighting back against rats and garbage, the installation of 'Empire Bins' makes Manhattan Community Board 9 the first neighborhood to have trash fully containerized.
New York City mother of 3 defies the odds, earns master's degree from Baruch College
A 52-year-old woman is the definition of resilience and perseverance, earning a master's degree from Baruch College on Wednesday, in order to fulfill her life-long dream of becoming a child psychologist.
Organization in Manhattan helps veterans with therapy, jobs, housing and more
Samaritan Daytop Village sees better than a 70 percent success rate, they just need help getting to word out to more veterans.
Victim of scary hit-and-run crash in Bushwick, Brooklyn shares survival story: exclusive
Video shows the hit-and-run crash that could have killed 32-year-old Roari Fay-Handebeaux.
Organization that provides mental health services to firefighters in desperate need of funds
Friends of Firefighters offer everything from acupuncture to intense therapy that has saved firefighters lives with mental healthcare since 9/11, when the idea for this started.
97-year-old Holocaust survivor gets her wish to spend day as college student
A 97-year-old Holocaust survivor wished to be a college student for a day, and on Tuesday her dream came true.
Congrats grad! 68-year-old graduates from Montclair State 50 years later
Ralph Castellano started at Montclair State when he was in his 20s, but he never graduated. Now at 68-years-old, he is graduating 50 years after he started at Montclair State University.
Near-fatal pit bull attack on Chihuahua leads to calls for new legislation in New York City
There's a push for new legislation about dog owners after a vicious animal attack in Manhattan's Upper West Side.