Barrett spent eight years in Washington as the original host of the daily, one-hour talk show called Let's Talk Live. She co hosted the show with Doug McElway who appears now on Fox News. Barrett was also the consumer reporter at WJLA.[1]
Barrett studied in London, England while attending American University in Washington. While in London, she worked for CNBC Europe. She graduated from American with a BA in Broadcast Journalism and Computer Information Systems.
She has worked at two stations in Texas: KZTV[2] in Corpus Christi, followed by KCEN-TV in Waco.[3] She joined WVEC-TV in Norfolk, Virginia, as an investigative reporter in 2003. Then, in 2006, she joined WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., as a reporter.
Barrett received a Breaking News Award for her day-long coverage of a deadly church bus crash from the Texas Associated Press.[citation needed]
She is also the recipient of an Investigative Reporting Award from the Virginia Associated Press for her work at WVEC-TV.[citation needed]
In 2007, she was nominated for the Hottest Female On-air in Washington.[4]
Barrett was a news anchor for KTRK-TV in Houston. In November 2018, she was hired to be the strategic communications manager for the city of Baytown, Texas.[5] She left the position in August 2019 to work as the senior spokesperson for Memorial Hermann Health System.[6]