Soledad O’Brien
Broadcast journalist
Soledad O’Brien is an award winning journalist, executive producer, and philanthropist. She is the CEO of Starfish Media Group, which is a multi-platform media production company dedicated to telling empowering and authentic stories on range of social issues. O’Brien continues to be a television anchor and correspondent, and the Starfish Media Group lists CNN, HBO, Real Sports and America Tonight, among a growing list of networks she is working with.
O’Brien has received numerous awards, including an Emmy, the NAACP’s President's Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, an Alfred I. du Pont Award, and the Gracie Allen Award. In 2008, she was the first recipient of the Soledad O’Brien Freedom’s Voice Award from the Morehouse School of Medicine, and was the first recipient of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Goodermote Humanitarian Award. O’Brien received the 2009 Medallion of Excellence for Leadership and Community Service Award from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. In 2010, she was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.
In 2011 O’Brien and her husband Brad Raymond created the PowHERful Foundation, which helps get young women get to and through college. This year, their conference series will visit 8 cities across the country.
She spoke at The Common Good Forum & The American Spirit Awards 2014 on June 2nd, 2014.
Twitter: @soledadobrien
