Meet The Team

Michelle Gallardo

Michelle Gallardo is a weekend general assignment reporter for ABC 7 News Chicago. She joined the ABC 7 weekend news team in May 2004.

Before coming to WLS-TV Gallardo worked with WGBO-TV (Univision). She spent three years as a weekday general assignment reporter, weekend weathercaster and fill in anchor. Gallardo also hosted the community affairs program Primera Plana.

Gallardo is only the second reporter ever to cross over from Spanish language television in the Chicago market.

Gallardo worked as freelance producer and reporter with CNN International and CNN en Espaņol. She covered the Mexican presidential elections where Vicente Fox was elected as the first non-PRI president in over 70 years. From 1998-2000 Gallardo worked as an entertainment reporter for Television Azteca Network in Mexico City, where she was put in charge of live coverage of millenium festivities from Times Square, NY.

Gallardo gained early experience as a Washington correspondent for WMAQ radio, where she worked through the Medill News Service. She began her career as production assistant for GMTV in London, then moved back to Washington DC where she worked as a freelance associate producer and field producer for Hearst-Argyle TV and Conus Communications respectively.

Gallardo, who was born in Mexico City, Mexico, received her undergraduate degree in international relations from the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico in 1995. She also holds a Master's Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Gallardo currently lives in downtown Chicago.

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