Yevette Collins grew up in Geneva and graduated from Geneva High School.
Her career in journalism started while in high school, when she was hired as a reporter/intern at the Finger Lakes Times where she worked part-time from 1989-1993.
She went on to graduate from St. John Fisher College in Pittsford, NY, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication/journalism.
In June 1994 Yevette was one of 50 students nationwide selected for a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Editing Internship. She attended a two-week copyediting training at Temple University in Pennsylvania, before putting that experience to work as a copyeditor at a daily newspaper, The Record Eagle, in Traverse City, Michigan.
During her senior year of college, she took an internship with YNN (then R News), the local Time Warner Cable television station in Rochester. Upon graduation Yevette was hired as the station’s first weekend morning producer as the station began 24-hour news production on July 4.
She worked her way through the ranks of producer, and even did a stint as a camera operator for live gavel-to-gavel trial coverage.
Within five years, she became a senior producer, and in 2001 was promoted to executive producer and supervisor. In 2009, she was promoted to her current position as a manager.
Yevette is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
She currently lives in Greece, but enjoys spending time with her family in Geneva.