Brandi Powell Email & Phone Number

Brandi Powell is an Emmy award winning journalist who anchors the weekday morning newscasts on KSTP 5 Eyewitness News 4:30-5:30am and KSTC 45TV 7-9am. She has been part of the news team since January 2014.She is also an on-air contributor on KSTP’s Minnesota Live and a contributing writer for Minnesota Monthly magazine.During her time at 5 Eyewitness News, she’s filled-in as a co-host on Minnesota Live, Twin Cities Live and At Issue. Brandi was chosen to be in the Prince and Mary Tyler Moore REELZ specials, giving on-air perspectives as a journalist and Minnesotan. In 2014, Brandi was selected to do a Voice-Over for part of a Shark Week episode. In the summer of 2022, Brandi anchored a 5 INVESTIGATES special: Race. Reform. Reality. The hour-long program offered a thoughtful approach to the complex issues facing our community after the murder of George Floyd. The team won a regional Emmy award for the program. In 2020, Brandi launched and reported an in-depth series: Conversations About Racism and the Road to Equality. The 3-part series included Understanding Racism, The Talk and Youth Activists & Education. The team won a Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Award for Special Project/In-depth Series in 2021.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater San Diego Area

From 2011-2013, Brandi worked as a Reporter/Multi-Media Journalist at KNSD-TV (NBC 7) in San Diego. She covered breaking news, crime and politics. She also served as a regular on-air contributor for Politically Speaking, the station’s weekly political show.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Brandi Powell earned her Master of Arts degree in Anthropology from George Washington University in Washington, DC. Her concentration was International Development. She has been trained in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology and Sociocultural Anthropology.Brandi was a full-time graduate student from Fall 2009 - Summer 2011.

Brandi worked as a Reporter/Video Journalist/Bell County Bureau Chief, from 2008-2009, at News 8 Austin (now Spectrum News -Time Warner Cable). She covered Fort Hood and its surrounding communities.

Her first on-air TV position was as the Political Reporter at KFYR-TV (NBC Affiliate) in Bismarck, North Dakota. From 2006-2008, she covered statewide elections and legislative sessions.While at KFYR-TV, Brandi was on assignment for two weeks in Guatemala covering elections, agriculture and education as she followed a group of North Dakota teachers doing an intercultural exchange. In her series “Guatemala: A Global Humanity”, she reported on political, educational and agricultural issues in Guatemala, via North Dakota’s ‘The God’s Child Project’. She won an Associated Press award for her international series.

Brandi began her career, behind-the-scenes, as a Production Assistant at MSNBC, from 2005-2006.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Anthropology

In 2011, Brandi earned her Master of Arts degree in Anthropology from George Washington University in Washington, DC. From 2009-2011.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communication Studies

Brandi Powell earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Brandi studied abroad twice.

Education record

Study Abroad (Barcelona, Spain)

Education record

Study Abroad (Salamanca, Spain)