Soledad O'Brien

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.

Story is our medium…. And it's how we make sense of our world...When it comes to our national narrative, what we need to realize is that we're all contributing to the story, that we can affect where this country is going. Soledad O'Brien

She was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in May 2023, is authored a critically acclaimed memoir The Next Big Story, and has 1.4 million followers on social media. She has given Congressional testimony on media disinformation. 

Most recently, she served as Executive Producer of the Oscar-nominated HBO documentary short The Devil Is Busy and the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary feature film The Perfect Neighbor. She also reported the documentary War on La Radio for Scripps and The End of Affirmative Action for CBS Reports and Paramount+, and co-hosted the IHeart podcast Who Killed JFK with the late Rob Reiner which debuted #1 on Apple with 9 million listeners 

She anchored and produced Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, a national Hearst political magazine for 10 years. She was a founding anchor at MSNBC, anchored NBC’s Weekend Today, anchored CNN’s morning show for more than a decade and later its documentary unit, and served as a correspondent for HBO RealSports. 

O’Brien’s work has been recognized over the years with ten 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, fourteen times with Telly Awards in 2025, and with an Alfred I. DuPont Award. 

Her documentary and longform work have appeared on Netflix, CNN, Nat Geo, BET, CBS, Paramount +, Peacock, and HBO. She led SO’B Productions’ efforts on 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 award and streams on HBO. She works with major foundations such as the Ford Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to create award-winning content on topics like hunger, race, and education.

She runs the PowHerful 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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