The director of the Greens' speakers bureau, Zinga was formerly a news anchor for CNN Headline News and the Airport Channel, a CNN network provided exclusively to metropolitan airports nationwide. She also wrote for "CNN Travel Guide" and anchored CNN Radio News.
Zinga has received several awards recognizing her accomplishments as a journalist. She received a prize for Best Newscast from the Associated Press, in both 1992 and 1994, and a First Place award for Individual and Feature Reporting from the Iowa UPI. She also was awarded a 12-month Rotary International Fellowship in Journalism ant the University of Leicester, in England. Other honors include the Illinois Education Association Distinguished Reporting Award, the Illinois Associated Press Radio Reporting Award, and the Quad Cities Ad Club Award.
Zinga grew up in Macomb, Illinois, where she began her broadcasting career in commercial radio. She spent several years in television in the Quad Cities at WQAD. She also was a television news anchor in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Wilmington, North Carolina. She earned her bachelor's degree from Western Illinois University and her master's in radio/television from the University of Illinois.
If the return home from the glamour of Atlanta is disappointing, you won't hear it in Andrea's comments. "This job has been one big adventure," Zinga said. "And I love the variety. I love being back in the area. It's matured culturally. It's not Atlanta, of course, but it has much to offer: the Quad Cities Music Guild, the Mark, the Bix Jazz Festival, and the like. There are certainly reasons for me to stay here a while."