Sade Baderinwa

About

Folasade Olayinka Baderinwa (born April 14, 1969), known professionally as Sade Baderinwa ( SHAH-day BAH-dər-in-wah), is an American broadcast journalist. Since 2003, she has been a news anchor at WABC-TV, the ABC flagship station in New York, and currently co-anchors the weekday 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts of Eyewitness News with Bill Ritter.

Baderinwa was born to a Nigerian father and a German mother. At age seven, her mother no longer took part in her life and her father returned to Africa, leaving her in the custody of a family friend. She was subsequently adopted in Baltimore by WBAL-TV anchor Edie House, whose parents also provided additional support. When Baderinwa was 12, her birth mother eventually took her in to live with her family in nearby Montgomery County. She has since continued to maintain contact with her biological parents, as well as with her adoptive family.
Baderinwa graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources with a degree in agricultural business and resource economics.

Baderinwa began her career as a production assistant for ABC News’ various programs…