Black Journalist Highlight: Soledad O'Brien

Executive producer, chairman and news correspondent. While each of these careers individually are yearned for by journalists around the world, María de la Soledad Teresa O’Brien (also known as Soledad O’Brien) possesses all three. The world-renown anchor has worked with networks such as CNN, HBO and many others. After beginning her career as an associate producer and news writer at an NBC affiliate in Boston, O’Brien joined NBC News in 1991 as a field producer for the Nightly News and Weekend Today. After documenting notable stories such as John F. Kennedy Jr.’s plane crash and the Columbine and Thurston High School shootings in the 1990s, O’Brien moved to CNN. O’Brien has covered some of the most important stories of the 21th century. In 2011, she won her first Emmy for Crisis in Haiti in the category of "Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story - Long Form." Along with her astounding career in journalism, O’Brien was recently named a Distinguished Visiting Fellow by the Harvard Graduate School of Education while also serving as a chair on the board of The After School Corporation. The "Soledad O'Brien Freedom's Voice Award" was named in her honor by the Morehouse School of Medicine to "recognize outstanding catalysts for social change." O'Brien is also an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.