Rosa Flores

Rosa Flores is an award-winning CNN correspondent based in Houston. She covers major breaking news stories, and she relentlessly pursues stories of immigration along the US and Mexico border. Her investigation into the death of Roshad McIntosh, a teenager killed by a Chicago police officer, led to the reopening of the city's investigation, resulting in one of the officers involved being recommended for termination. But news reporting is her second career. A prayer and a promise prompted her to leave a promising career in accounting to pursue journalism and the telling of powerful stories that connect people. Flores’ passion for education started when she was 3 years old, and she realized she didn’t speak English but children who hopped on yellow busses were fluent. At that early age, she devised plots to convince her parents to enroll her in school. That early curiosity and determination for education launched Flores into a lifestyle of learning. Flores earned a Bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism, Bachelor's degree in business administration, and Master's degree in accounting at the University of Texas at Austin, where in 2018 she was honored as an Outstanding Young Texas Exes. Since 2018 Flores has served on the Leadership Council of the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication.