Prior to joining KMOV in the summer of 2003, Carey was the morning and afternoon news anchor at the Fox affiliate in Henderson-Las Vegas, Nevada (KVVU).
[1] She first attended Smith College but later graduated from Baylor University in her native Texas, where she earned a bachelor's degree in telecommunications.
She later moved to Atlanta to work for HLN, where she was responsible for the covering women and children affected by violence.
She was best-known for her coverage of Fort Hood in Texas and the week she spent in Bosnia where she covered the work of soldiers in the 1st US Cavalry stationed there.
In October 2020, she became the temporary host of UpFront on Al Jazeera English until Marc Lamont Hill was chosen as the permanent replacement.