Jocelyn maminta biography

To call Jocelyn Maminta a busy woman is an understatement. Many know her as the 9 a.m. co-anchor of News 8’s Good Morning Connecticut and the station’s medical reporter, but her high-profile day job is just one aspect of the entrepreneur, philanthropist and mother’s life.

In addition to her career as an Emmy Award-nominated newswoman, she is co-founder of Caroline’s Room, an effort to create safe places inside hospitals where families can cope with the challenges surrounding the birth of a premature baby.

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Maminta and husband Gary Doyens were inspired to create these spaces after losing their daughter, Caroline, at the age of two months. What started at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital has spread to Connecticut Children’s Medical Center as well as to hospitals in Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Texas and Virginia.

Maminta also is CEO and founder of Frangi Pangi, a company that makes hosiery for women of all colors.

And she serves on the board of The Friends of Yale-New Ha