[3] On January 21, 2006, Brewer competed in the nationally televised Miss America pageant, making it into the top ten final contestants, getting beat out by eventual winner Jennifer Berry of Oklahoma.

[6] Brewer interned at WGAL-TV in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and worked as a special assignment reporter for a community access cable television station in Greeley, Colorado.

Before joining CBS 3, Brewer had been a feature reporter and producer for the nightly news magazine Tempo at WLVT-TV, the PBS station in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

She won a 2008 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for her feature report for the Tempo episode "Kids and Gangs".

[8] In June, 2018, after a decade on air, she left her job at the station saying she wanted to spend more time with her family.