Soledad O'Brien

Celebrated for her compelling storytelling and in-depth reporting, Soledad O’Brien shares with audiences her thought-provoking insights on media, race, class, and socioeconomic issues—and how the power of our stories can drive change. 

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

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 national Hearst political magazine program. She was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in May 2023.  

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, twice with Telly Awards, and with an Alfred I. DuPont Award. 

SO’B Productions has two projects debuting in 2025, the Netflix documentary film The Perfect Neighbor, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and the HBO documentary short The Devil is Busy. This year, Soledad also reported a documentary on Latino voters, War on La Radio, and The End of Affirmative Action. Her podcast, Who Killed JFK co-hosted with Rob Reiner on IHeart that was named by Apple as one of its best shows for 2024 with 9 million viewers. 

Previously, 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.

Soledad has a national impact through her podcasts, social media, speeches, and books, including her critically acclaimed memoir The Next Big Story, and her 1.4 million followers on social media. She has given Congressional testimony on media disinformation. She was a founding anchor at MSNBC, anchored at NBC’s Weekend Today, anchored CNN’s morning show for more than a decade, and was a correspondent for HBO RealSports. Her documentary and longform work has appeared on Netflix, CNN, Nat Geo, BET, CBS, Paramount +, Peacock, and HBO.  

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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