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Khambrel Marshall is a member of the KPRC 2 Weather Team and delivers the weekend forecasts to help you plan your day. He also is host of “Houston Newsmakers with Khambrel Marshall,” a weekly program that delves into issues in the news that Southeast Texans most care about.

Khambrel has had a multifaceted career in broadcasting. While studying for his broadcasting degree from Arizona State University, he began his first job in TV as weekend sports anchor in Phoenix. Through the years, he was a sports reporter, sports director, then primary news anchor in Miami before joining KPRC-TV as weekday anchor in May 1999.

He is a past Chairman and current board member of the YMCA of Greater Houston, and also sits on the boards of Collaborative for Children, The Holocaust Museum Houston and the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center and Interim Chair of Fit Houston, the nonprofit established to inspire minds, bodies and communities through physical activity. He is a past board chair of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Texas and past board member of the Susan G. Komen Houston Chapter and the March of Dimes of Greater Houston.

Khambrel has won numerous awards in journalism and community service. Among them is one of broadcasting’s top awards, the Emmy, for a feature series titled “Guardians at Sea,” chronicling the efforts of the U.S. Coast Guard to rescue Cuban and Haitian refugees crossing the Florida Straits.

Khambrel has a tireless commitment to volunteer service. He was one of 12 recipients to receive the National Community Service Award from the Westinghouse Corporation and was named “Outstanding Young Floridian” by the Fort Lauderdale Jaycees for his humanitarian efforts in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. He has been honored as March of Dimes Texas Communications volunteer of the year. He was Chairman of the 2011 March for Babies in Houston, the largest walk in the United States for the March of Dimes. More than 45,000 walkers raised more than three million dollars for March of Dimes Research. He was co-chair of the Susan G. Komen Race for the cure for two years and helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for breast cancer research.

Khambrel is a Senior Fellow in the “American Leadership Forum: Houston/Gulf Coast Chapter.” The intense ALF one-year program is designed to join and strengthen diverse leaders in the community to better serve the public good.

Khambrel has been married since 1979 to his wife Debbie and they have three daughters and four grandchildren.