Dara Brown is a news anchor and senior producer for MSNBC.com. In 2006, she became an alternating host of Early Today on NBC and First Look on MSNBC. Biography Born Dara Evans Brown, she is the daughter of Karen (née Peterson) and David E. Brown. Dara has a son named Hayden, and a daughter named Victoria. As a child, Brown starred as the title character in the first national tour of the musical Annie. Brown graduated in 1983 from Wall High School in Wall Township, New Jersey. She is a graduate of New York University. In 1999, she married Matthew Schmid in a Lutheran ceremony in Manasquan, New Jersey. The pair divorced in 2014. References Living people American television news anchors New York University alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) American women television journalists Wall High School (New Jersey) alumni 21st-century American women