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Soledad O’Brien

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Soledad O’Brien is an Emmy, Peabody, and Gracie award-winning documentarian, journalist, speaker, author, and 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. She anchors and produces “Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien,” a political magazine program syndicated in 95% of the country for Hearst and is a correspondent for HBO Real Sports.

Soledad has a national impact through her speeches and books, including her critically acclaimed memoir “The Next Big Story” and “Latino in America.” She founded the PowHerful foundation in 2011 which has helped dozens of young women get to and through college and reaches out to hundreds of others through regional mentoring conferences.