Laura Coates is on the rise at CNN, anchoring a new 11 p.m. broadcast called Laura Coates Live and serving as the network's chief legal analyst — in addition to hosting The Laura Coates Show on SiriusXM.
Coates, 43, made the switch to journalism after a successful legal career that led to her serving as a federal prosecutor for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division during the Bush and Obama administrations. Now, she's a mother of two, a wife and a self-proclaimed adventure-seeker — and she goes about her life informed by her thrilling and at times unusual upbringing.