Maria de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien was born on September 19,1966 and is an American broadcast journalist and executive producer.
34 Facts About Soledad O'Brien
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Soledad O'Brien is chairwoman of Starfish Media Group, a multiplatform media production company and distributor that she founded in 2013.
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Soledad O'Brien is a member of the Peabody Awards board of directors, which is presented by the University of Georgia's Henry W Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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In 2013, Soledad O'Brien became special correspondent on the Al Jazeera America news program America Tonight, and is a correspondent on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
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Soledad O'Brien's parents were both immigrants and met while they were students at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Soledad O'Brien's father is from Toowoomba, Queensland, in Australia and is of three quarters Irish and one quarter Scottish descent.
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Soledad O'Brien's mother is from Havana, Cuba, and is of Afro-Cuban descent.
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Interracial marriage was illegal in Maryland before 1967, so in 1958 Soledad O'Brien's parents married in Washington, DC, where marriage laws were less restrictive.
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Soledad O'Brien is the fifth of six children, all graduates of Harvard College.
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Soledad O'Brien attended Radcliffe College from 1984 to 1988, starting as pre-med and English and American literature, but left to take a job at WBZ-TV.
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Soledad O'Brien went back to school while pregnant with her first child and received her degree from Harvard in English and American Literature in 2000.
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Soledad O'Brien started her career in journalism as a medical reporter on WXKS-FM in Boston because of her background as a pre-med student in college.
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Soledad O'Brien began her career as an associate producer and news writer at WBZ-TV, then the NBC affiliate in Boston.
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Soledad O'Brien joined NBC News in 1991 and was based in New York as a field producer for the Nightly News and Weekend Today.
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Soledad O'Brien then worked for three years as a local reporter and bureau chief for San Francisco's then-NBC affiliate KRON-TV.
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From July 1999 to July 2003, Soledad O'Brien was co-anchor of the NBC News program, Weekend Today with David Bloom.
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Soledad O'Brien covered such notable stories as John F Kennedy Jr.
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Soledad O'Brien moved to CNN, where from July 2003 to April 2007, she was co-anchor of the CNN program, American Morning CNN's flagship morning program that aired live from New York City.
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From January 2012 to March 2013, Soledad O'Brien was anchor of the CNN program, Starting Point.
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In 2009, Soledad O'Brien completed a documentary titled Latino In America, documenting the lives of Latinos living in America.
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Soledad O'Brien continued working as a reporter for CNN, mainly hosting "In America" documentaries, and occasionally filled in for Anderson Cooper on Anderson Cooper 360.
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Soledad O'Brien anchored exit poll coverage during CNN's coverage of the primaries and caucuses in the 2008 United States presidential race, and filled in for Paula Zahn on Paula Zahn Now before Zahn left CNN in 2007.
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Soledad O'Brien anchored a CNN special, Black in America, in July 2007.
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On February 24,2021, Soledad O'Brien testified at a House Committee on Ethics subcommittee hearing on "disinformation and extremism in the media".
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In June 2013, Soledad O'Brien formed the production and distribution company Starfish Media Group.
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From 2013 to 2016, Soledad O'Brien was moderator of National Geographic Bee, replacing Alex Trebek who moderated for 25-plus years.
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On May 1,2016, Soledad O'Brien hosted PBS NewsHour Weekend, filling in for Alison Stewart.
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On January 12,2016, Soledad O'Brien appeared on PBS's TV genealogy program, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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In 2016, Soledad O'Brien presented the 'I Am Latino in America' tour, with nationwide stops across the United States.
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In May 2022, Soledad O'Brien partnered with JP Morgan to advise and give a lecture at the company's financial health education, wealth-building, and financial inclusion for Dallas' Black and Hispanic communities.
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Soledad O'Brien took the stage to discuss potential impacts and value of the event and its subsequent activity.
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In 1995, Soledad O'Brien married Bradford "Brad" Raymond, co-head of investment banking at Stifel.
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Soledad O'Brien has been riding horses since she was 13 years old, a hobby which she now enjoys with her family.
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On February 7,2011, Soledad O'Brien was inducted as an Honorary Member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.