Dawna Friesen is a Canadian television journalist and is the chief anchor and executive editor of Global National. A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and graduate of Red River College, Friesen has worked in journalism since 1985, working in Thunder Bay, Ontario; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Brandon, Manitoba; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; and Vancouver, British Columbia. Friesen reported and anchored for CBC Television in Vancouver and for CBC Newsworld. She then moved to the CTV as a national reporter for the network, and an anchor for CTV NewsNet. She moved to NBC News in 1999, and was a foreign correspondent in the network's London bureau. She began anchoring Global National on September 20, 2010. Friesen won a Gemini Award in 2011 for Best News Anchor. Friesen is married to CTV journalist Tom Kennedy. They have one son. 

October 8th, 1964 in Winnipeg (Age 59)