Dana Arschin is a 3X Emmy Award-Winning journalist and the first-ever Storyteller for the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC). Prior to her role with the museum, she spent six years working as an on-air general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor for Fox 5 News, covering the New York/Tri-state area. Dana is also the proud granddaughter of an Auschwitz Concentration Camp survivor, her "Poppy." Poppy passed away in December 2023 at 101 years old. In 2018, Dana traveled to Poland to learn more about her ancestors murdered in the Holocaust. She shot, wrote and produced three short films on her journey for Fox 5. She won her second NY Emmy award for one of those films, entitled The Forgotten Camps. She previously reported for News 12 The Bronx/Brooklyn, where she shot, wrote and edited all of her stories. During her tenure at News 12, Dana won her first NY Emmy Award for her reporting on the city's cleanup efforts in Brooklyn during the 2014 snowstorms. She also won first place two years in a row at the NY Press Club Awards for her reporting in Brooklyn. She won her third NY Emmy in October 2023 for her reporting in a Fox 5 special called "Tower of Heroes."
Dana grew up on Long Island, where she discovered her passion for journalism at a young age. She made her broadcasting debut in the fifth grade, reporting for her elementary school's first-ever news station, Jackson Broadcasting Kids.
Dana graduated Cum Laude from the University of Delaware with a double major in Spanish Studies and Communication. She also earned a Master's Degree with honors in Broadcast Journalism from the New York Institute of Technology. She is fluent in Spanish, conversant in Portuguese and a beginner in Mandarin.
During her free time you can find Dana on the flying trapeze, playing on volleyball leagues, and spending time with her husband and two young daughters.
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Dana grew up on Long Island, where she discovered her passion for journalism at a young age. She made her broadcasting debut in the fifth grade, reporting for her elementary school's first-ever news station, Jackson Broadcasting Kids.
Dana graduated Cum Laude from the University of Delaware with a double major in Spanish Studies and Communication. She also earned a Master's Degree with honors in Broadcast Journalism from the New York Institute of Technology. She is fluent in Spanish, conversant in Portuguese and a beginner in Mandarin.
During her free time you can find Dana on the flying trapeze, playing on volleyball leagues, and spending time with her husband and two young daughters.
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