The veteran CNN anchor was born on July 12, 1979, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
She pursued her school education at The Westminster School, a private college-preparatory school. Later, she earned a double degree in Journalism and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001.
During her undergraduate years, she also studied at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
Following that, Baldwin made a significant breakthrough in her career when she joined CNN in 2008 as a reporter. Afterward, she was promoted to the position of news anchor in 2010.
One of her remarkable works was co-anchoring CNN's special coverage of the final launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) from Kennedy Space Center on July 8, 2011.
Brooke won a Silver World Medal for Best Investigative Report at the New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards in 2012 for her crime documentary To Catch a Killer. She also became a finalist of a Peabody Award for hosting a town hall in Washington, D.C., on gun violence in 2015.
In 2016, she played an integral role in covering the presidential election in the United States and covered President Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony in January 2017.