10 Facts About Campbell Brown

1. In 2012, Campbell Brown performed as a "broadcast journalist" in the play 8.

2. On December 18, 2007, Campbell Brown gave birth to their son, Eli James Senor, named after his grandfather, James Senor.

3. On June 24, 2007, Campbell Brown announced on Weekend Today that she and her husband were expecting their first baby.

4. In July 2015, Campbell Brown co-founded The 74, a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America; it gets its name from the fact that there are roughly 74 million children under the age of 18 in the United States.

5. In June 2014, Campbell Brown founded the non-profit organization Partnership for Educational Justice, which aims to help students, families and communities advocate for public school reform through coalition building and legal action.

6. In June 2013, Campbell Brown founded the Parents Transparency Project, a nonprofit watchdog group on behalf of parents seeking information and accountability from the teachers' unions and New York Department of Education on actions impacting children in schools.

7. In January 2017, Facebook announced that Campbell Brown would be joining to lead the company's news partnerships team.

8. In May 2012, Campbell Brown published a New York Times op-ed in which she criticized President Obama for sounding "paternalistic" when he speaks of women.

9. On May 18, 2010, Campbell Brown announced that she would be leaving CNN.

10. In March 2006, Campbell Brown was named as one of five women who might replace Katie Couric when she left the Today Show.