Soledad O'Brien

Award-winning Documentarian, Journalist, Speaker, Author, Philanthropist, and Founder of Soledad O’Brien Productions

Soledad O’Brien is an award-winning journalist, 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. This year, she served as Executive Producer of the HBO documentary short "The Devil Is Busy," now streaming, as well as "The Perfect Neighbor," which earned the Best Director award at Sundance, and is currently the number one–streamed documentary on Netflix. O’Brien’s work has been recognized with ten Emmy awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and many others. Her passion for supporting young people is realized by way of her foundation, PowHERful, which has helped dozens of young women get to and through college. Soledad lives between New York and West Palm Beach with her husband Brad, and her four children.

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