Isha Isatu Sesay is a British journalist of Sierra Leonean descent.
23 Facts About Isha Sesay
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In 2012, Sesay joined HLN as a co-anchor for Evening Express.
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Isha Sesay is one of three children, with an older sister and a younger brother.
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Isha Sesay's father worked as a legal advisor to the SLPMB ; he died in 1988.
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Isha Sesay studied at the private Fourah Bay College School in Freetown.
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Isha Sesay worked as a waitress in a bar while studying.
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Isha Sesay decided to become a television journalist, having previously aspired to become an actress.
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Isha Sesay later was hired as a full-time paid employee.
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Isha Sesay went on to present a variety of programmes for the BBC, CNN and TWI, before joining Sky in March 2002.
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At Sky, Isha Sesay spent over three years as an anchor on Good Morning Sports Fans for Sky Sports News.
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Isha Sesay considers the high points of this period to be meeting former boxer Michael Watson, interviewing Ellen MacArthur, and travelling with members of the Arsenal football team following an exhibition match at Reebok Stadium in support of Nwankwo Kanu's heart foundation.
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Isha Sesay later moved to ITN, where she anchored the ITV Morning News programme, and was a newsreader on breakfast programme GMTV.
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In November 2005, Isha Sesay became a news anchor and correspondent at CNN International, based at the network's global headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States.
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Isha Sesay traveled to Nigeria in April 2007 to cover Nigeria's election; the presidential election, where she conducted one-on-one interviews with both outgoing president Olusegun Obasanjo, and the newly elected president Umaru Yar'Adua.
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In 2009, Isha Sesay became the host of the first edition of the weekday news program International Desk.
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Isha Sesay was assigned as the anchor of a new show, CNN NewsCenter.
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Isha Sesay is currently based in Los Angeles, United States.
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On 2 August 2018, Isha Sesay announced that she was leaving CNN after 13 years.
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Isha Sesay cited the media's focus on United States President Donald Trump as a reason for her decision.
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Isha Sesay announced that she will be writing a book about the abduction of Chibok girls, and that she plans to continue her engagement with African issues.
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In June 2019, Isha Sesay was a speaker at the Women Deliver Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
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Isha Sesay was a speaker at the 2019 Brilliant minds event in Stockholm, Sweden.
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In September 2019, Isha Sesay was invited as a guest speaker in the BBC program Africa today for two days, where she talked on women's representation in the media.