Alanna Quillen

About

I’m a Texas girl, born and raised. So you can imagine how thrilling it has been to work for the station I grew up watching in my hometown of Dallas-Fort Worth! I joined NBC 5 in November 2019 as a morning reporter for NBC 5 Today.Before returning home, I made several stops around the south, most recently at WPTV in West Palm Beach, Florida as a reporter and fill-in anchor. While there, I reported on the tragic school shooting in Parkland, covered President Donald Trump at the Winter White House, and filed field reports throughout Hurricane Irma. I also reported on the ground in the Bahamas as a relief volunteer following Hurricane Dorian.My on-air career began in Midland, Texas as a weekend anchor and reporter. I also spent nearly five years in Louisiana working in Monroe and Shreveport as an evening anchor and reporter.I’m a proud graduate of Mesquite High School (Go Skeeters!) and the University of Texas at Arlington, where I studied broadcast journalism and worked on the school newspaper, The Shorthorn. While there, I studied abroad in France and also held internships in DFW including D Magazine, CBS 11 and NBC 5. During my internship at NBC 5, I wrote feature articles for NBCDFW.com and shadowed the same reporters in the field with whom I work alongside today.Outside of work, I’ve spent hundreds of volunteer hours working at animal shelters and soup kitchens for the last several years, most recently as an education docent at a sea turtle hospital in Juno Beach, Florida. I currently volunteer every weekend at SoupMobile Church in South Dallas, distributing food and supplies to the homeless.