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CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien to open UD lecture series
Award-winning CNN anchor Soledad ‘OBrien will kick off the University of Dayton’s 2008-2009 Diversity Lecture Series on Wednesday, Sept. 10. O’Brien will address “Diversity: On TV, Behind the Scenes and in Our Lives” at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Union Ballroom on the UD campus.
The talk is free and open to the public. Guests are requested to arrive early as seating is limited.
O’Brien is an anchor and special correspondent for CNN: Special Investigations Unit and also covers political news. Most recently, she reported for “CNN Presents: Black in America,” a sweeping landmark series revealing the state of America 40 years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. It was the highest-rated documentary series in CNN history.
O’Brien was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody Award for its Hurricane Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. duPont Award for its coverage of the 2004 Phuket, Thailand tsunami disaster.
O’Brien is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She graduated from Harvard University with a degree in English and American literature.
More information on O’Brien’s appearance can be found here.
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