WCBS star reporter Hazel Sanchez, who is also a Filipino American, was quoted by the Reporter as saying “Kristine is not only talented, she’s also a very nice, very kind woman.”

Kristine had earlier worked as a TV reporter and later reporter and anchor of a TV station in Rhode Island. A journalism graduate of the University of Nebraska with minors in political science, history and English, Kristine  had been twice nominated for  an Emmy Award as a producer.

In an interview with the weekly Reporter, Kristine, who is often mistaken for a Latina, never Filipino, was only a year old when her father Erik Johnson, a meteorologist at Clark brought her to the US along with her siblings and their mother, Africa Dizon Johnson.

She told the Reporter:

“My mom speaks Kapampangagan and Taglog. I can understand most of her Tagalog words. I eat siopao, kilawin, paksiw na isda and I can make adobo and pancit luglug. I also make fried rice and I eat bagoong but only with green mangoes.

“Unfortunately, my husband cannot stand bagoong. But he eats all the food my mom cooks.

Once or twice a month, Kristine and her family visits her parents who are now both retired in Wales, Pennsylvania.

“One thing I like being a Filipino is that wherever you move, once you make a Filipino friend, you automatically make a hundred friends and you call them uncle and auntie by the end of the evening.”

Kristine was only five when she returned to the Philippines to study for four years at the Clark Air Base school. She had long wanted to visit again, but her schedule will not allow it.

“I have a lot of relatives in Pampanga who sends photos and videos of my cousins every now and then."

Kristine lives in Bergen county, New Jersey with her husand, Steve Poulin, who’s into sales management and their two children, Ava, 5, and Burke, 5 months old. With her co-anchor Chris Wragge, they were promoted from co-anchoring the noon and 5 p.m. to the 11 p.m. newscasts on weekdays. Peter Dunn, general manager and president of WCBS-TV said the two were responsible for bringing up the rating of the news program.

WCBS star reporter Hazel Sanchez, who is also a Filipino American, was quoted by the Reporter as saying “Kristine is not only talented, she’s also a very nice, very kind woman.”

Kristine had earlier worked as a TV reporter and later reporter and anchor of a TV station in Rhode Island. A journalism graduate of the University of Nebraska with minors in political science, history and English, Kristine  had been twice nominated for  an Emmy Award as a producer.

In an interview with the weekly Reporter, Kristine, who is often mistaken for a Latina, never Filipino, was only a year old when her father Erik Johnson, a meteorologist at Clark brought her to the US along with her siblings and their mother, Africa Dizon Johnson.

She told the Reporter:

“My mom speaks Kapampangagan and Taglog. I can understand most of her Tagalog words. I eat siopao, kilawin, paksiw na isda and I can make adobo and pancit luglug. I also make fried rice and I eat bagoong but only with green mangoes.

“Unfortunately, my husband cannot stand bagoong. But he eats all the food my mom cooks.

Once or twice a month, Kristine and her family visits her parents who are now both retired in Wales, Pennsylvania.

“One thing I like being a Filipino is that wherever you move, once you make a Filipino friend, you automatically make a hundred friends and you call them uncle and auntie by the end of the evening.”

Kristine was only five when she returned to the Philippines to study for four years at the Clark Air Base school. She had long wanted to visit again, but her schedule will not allow it.

“I have a lot of relatives in Pampanga who sends photos and videos of my cousins every now and then."