Amy Chillag has been with CNN since 2001 writing breaking news and producing features for CNN and HLN.

She enjoys longer-form storytelling with a focus on profiling the lives of inspiring humans.

Before coming to CNN, Chillag was a reporter and anchor for WINZ radio in South Florida, a freelance print reporter contributing to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Sun-Sentinel and the Miami Herald and a news writer for the CBS and ABC TV affiliates in Miami.

She earned her bachelor's degree from The University of Florida and a masters degree in communication from the University of Miami.