- Born
- Birth nameSuzanne M. Malveaux
- Suzanne Malveaux was born on December 4, 1966 in Lansing, Michigan, USA.
- Graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in sociology; a classmate was future CNN reporter Soledad O'Brien. She graduated with a master's degree in broadcasting from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1991.
- First name is pronounced Sue-zahn.
- Her father, Floyd J. Malveaux, is a prominent African-American doctor who became the dean of the College of Medicine at Howard University; he is now the executive director of the Merck Childhood Asthma Network and a founder of Howard University's National Human Genome Center. Her mother is the former Myrna Maria Ruiz, a retired schoolteacher.
- Born into a New Orleans-based family of African, Spanish, and French descent. Her father is of Louisiana French Creole descent.
- She has three siblings: Suzette M. Malveaux (twin with Suzanne and an associate professor at the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America), Courtney M. Malveaux (the assistant attorney general for the state of Virginia and chairman of the Richmond Republican Committee), Gregory F. Malveaux (an associate professor of English at Montgomery College).
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