Tisha Thompson is the Emmy Award winning Investigative Reporter at ABC 2 News.

She was born and raised on blue crab and Terrapin basketball. But it took her a few years and a couple of detours to get to Baltimore…

Tisha left Churchill High School in Rockville, MD and headed to Princeton University, where she graduated cum laude after she wrote her thesis on espionage. During college, she interned for MTV News in New York City and Primetime Live and 20/20 in the Washington, D.C. bureau of ABC News. She wrote another thesis on media punditry during President Clinton’s impeachment for her Master’s degree at the University of Missouri’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she graduated first in her class. At Mizzou, she covered state house politics for public radio KBIA-FM in Columbia and talk-radio KMOX-FM in St. Louis.

She began her television career at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri as an anchor and political reporter. She covered the 2000 National Conventions, the fatal plane crash of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan and John Ashcroft’s failed U.S. Senate campaign, as well as Ashcroft's subsequent confirmation hearings for U.S. Attorney General in Washington, D.C.

Tisha left the Show-Me state and headed for the Bluegrass state, where she worked as an anchor and general assignment reporter for WPSD-TV in Paducah, Kentucky. There, she covered everything from earthquakes, floods and F-5 tornadoes dumping brick houses in ponds to watching 23,000 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division head off to Iraq. During her stay in Paducah, Tisha won several awards, including an Edward R. Murrow award for Investigative Reporting and “Best Television Reporter” from the Kentucky Associated Press. Kentucky Governor Paul Patton also made her a coveted “Kentucky Colonel” – the state’s highest civilian honor.

Now, Tisha is finally back home where she belongs as the founding member of the new ABC2 News Investigative Unit. She has won more than two dozen national and regional awards in her first three years here. She just won a 2006 Emmy Award for her in-depth look at the Water Taxi survivors and has received "Maryland's Best New Reporter Award" from the Maryland Society of Professional Journalists. She received National Headliner, Clarion and ACRE awards for her investigation into Maryland's worst doctors, as well as three national awards for her investigation into the health of Baltimore's public schools. She was an IRE national finalist and received state and national awards from the American Legion for her investigation into lead jewelry -- the first in the nation to test children's jewelry for the toxic material. In the two years since her original investigation aired, the federal government has recalled more than 200 million pieces of jewelry -- making it the largest recall of a children's product in American history.