Cassandra Franklin

Cassandra Franklin is a contestant from.

Profile
Cassandra Franklin was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She currently manages the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has been employed by the university for 23 years.

Franklin participates in events to raise funds and awareness for Minority Women and Children with AIDS and Breast Cancer Research. Additionally, she is Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Southeast Communities Prevention and Intervention Program.

Franklin's hobbies include skiing, traveling and shopping. She describes herself as fun, warm and giving. She is very proud of her family, including her mother, Varie, who is retired and living in Los Angeles with Franklin's stepfather, Coleman. Her sister, Debra, resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Dr. Robert A. Williams, the pastor of the McCoy Memorial Baptist Church.

Franklin has been married for two years to her husband, Clif. Her birth date is April 19, 1964.

Voting History
In I Wanna See If I Can Make a Deal, Yau-Man used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Cassandra's vote against him.

Post-Survivor

 * On January 9, 2010, Cassandra attended Survivor's 10-year anniversary party.

Trivia

 * Cassandra is one of only three African-American women to reach the Final Tribal Council of Survivor (the other two are Vecepia Towery and Sabrina Thompson).
 * Cassandra was the oldest female of Moto and of Bula Bula and was the oldest African-American contestant on Fiji.
 * Cassandra and Dreamz Herd are the first of four pairs to tie for the Runner-up spot at the Final Tribal Council. The others are Lisa Whelchel/Michael Skupin from, Sherri Biethman/Dawn Meehan from , and Carolyn Rivera/Will Sims II in.
 * Both Cassandra and Dreamz were awarded $100,000 as co-runner-up.
 * Cassandra holds the record for the least amount of tribal councils attended by a finalist prior to reaching the finals, with 7.