Full Name
Soledad O’Brien
Job Title
Founder
Company
Soledad O’Brien Productions
Speaker Bio
Soledad O’Brien is an award-winning documentarian, journalist, speaker, author, philanthropist, and founder of Soledad O’Brien Productions, a media production company dedicated to telling empowering and authentic stories on a range of social issues. She anchors and produces "Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien," a Hearst political magazine program seen in 95% of the country. She was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in May 2023.
She has made a name in podcasting, co-hosting the top-rated series “Who Killed JFK” with Rob Reiner for IHeart, reporting the Luminary series “Murder on the Towpath,” and hosting “Growing up POC” on Audible, “Very Opinionated” on Quake, and “Everyday Wealth” for Edelman Financial.
Soledad has a national impact through her op-eds, social media, speeches, and books, including her critically acclaimed memoir “The Next Big Story” and 1.3 million X followers. She gave Congressional testimony on media disinformation. She has anchored shows and specials on CNN, MSNBC, Nat Geo, BET, ABC, and CBS, co-anchored NBC’s Weekend Today, and reported for PBS NewsHour and HBO Real Sports.
Her most recent project is her documentary “The End of Affirmative Action" which streamed on CBS, Paramount +, and YouTube. She is Executive Producer of the Peabody-Award-winning documentary, “The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and streams on Peacock, and the multi-part series “Black and Missing”, which won the Independent Spirit and NAACP awards and streams on HBO. Soledad O’ Brien Productions has also produced documentaries for Discovery Plus, CNN, BET, PBS, and others. O’Brien’s work has been recognized with four Emmy awards, three times with the George Foster Peabody Award, four times with the Gracie Award, which honors women in media, twice with Cine Awards for her work in documentary films, twice with Telly Awards and with an Alfred I. DuPont Award.
She runs the Powerful foundation with her husband which has helped dozens of young women get to and through college and connects thousands of others with assistance through regional mentoring conferences.
She has made a name in podcasting, co-hosting the top-rated series “Who Killed JFK” with Rob Reiner for IHeart, reporting the Luminary series “Murder on the Towpath,” and hosting “Growing up POC” on Audible, “Very Opinionated” on Quake, and “Everyday Wealth” for Edelman Financial.
Soledad has a national impact through her op-eds, social media, speeches, and books, including her critically acclaimed memoir “The Next Big Story” and 1.3 million X followers. She gave Congressional testimony on media disinformation. She has anchored shows and specials on CNN, MSNBC, Nat Geo, BET, ABC, and CBS, co-anchored NBC’s Weekend Today, and reported for PBS NewsHour and HBO Real Sports.
Her most recent project is her documentary “The End of Affirmative Action" which streamed on CBS, Paramount +, and YouTube. She is Executive Producer of the Peabody-Award-winning documentary, “The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and streams on Peacock, and the multi-part series “Black and Missing”, which won the Independent Spirit and NAACP awards and streams on HBO. Soledad O’ Brien Productions has also produced documentaries for Discovery Plus, CNN, BET, PBS, and others. O’Brien’s work has been recognized with four Emmy awards, three times with the George Foster Peabody Award, four times with the Gracie Award, which honors women in media, twice with Cine Awards for her work in documentary films, twice with Telly Awards and with an Alfred I. DuPont Award.
She runs the Powerful foundation with her husband which has helped dozens of young women get to and through college and connects thousands of others with assistance through regional mentoring conferences.
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