She was born in Slovenia and moved to Canada with her parents as a child, growing up in Mississauga, Ontario.
[1] She joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a researcher in 1976, and covered the 1980 Quebec referendum for the network.
When Midday ended its run in 2000,[3] Srebotnjak moved to TVOntario, where she has hosted cultural programming including the (now-defunct) book series Imprint.
[4][5] Her short story "Becoming Canadian" was published in the book The First Man in My Life: Daughters Write About Their Fathers by Sandra Martin.
[6] She worked in the communications and marketing department of the Toronto Public Library,[7] from 2007 to 2014.