Cristina Mendonsa
Cristina Mendonsa (born November 11, 1968) in Fair Oaks, California) Currently anchors News10 weekdays at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. with Dale Schornack. She joined the station in December 1995.
Prior to joining KXTV Cristina worked at KUSA-TV as the morning anchor in Denver, Colorado from 1993-1995 and as a consumer reporter and fill in anchor at KOVR-TV and as a general assignment reporter for KRCR-TV in Redding, California. She started her television career as a writer for KRBK-TV (now KMAX-TV) in Sacramento. Cristina began her journalism career as a newspaper columnist for the Fair Oaks Post and worked for several radio station news departments before making the jump to television.
Cristina was born and raised in Fair Oaks, California and graduated from Del Campo High School in 1986. She later attended Sacramento State University for a few years and then transferred to Metro College of Denver and earned her BA in Government and Journalism in 1990. Politics remains one of her favorite story subjects.
Cristina has won many awards in her 17 years of experience in broadcasting. To name a few she won an Emmy in the "Serious News Feature" reporting category for a series that both warned and helped consumers protect themselves from identity theft. She continues to do update the series with new information as more advances are made to stop identity thieves. She received another Emmy Award in the "Breaking News" category, as well as three Best of Gannett awards for both breaking and investigative journalism.
Cristina currently resides in Folsom, California just east of Sacramento county with two daughters and her husband who is a Science middle school teacher.