Soledad O'Brien

Soledad O’Brien, host and producer of MATTER OF FACT, is an award-winning documentarian, journalist, speaker, author and philanthropist.

She is CEO of Starfish Media Group, a multi-platform media production and distribution company.

O'Brien has produced non-scripted programming, dozens of documentaries, and presented live events, concert specials, and award shows on numerous platforms, including CNN, Nat Geo, HBO, NBC, MSNBC, A&E Network, and Lifetime.

She currently reports for HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” regularly contributes to the PBS NewsHour and WebMD, and serves as host and Executive Producer of both Mysteries and Scandals on Oxygen and “Who Shot Biggie & Tupac?” on FOX.

Soledad and her husband, Brad

She is the author of two critically acclaimed books and the winner of multiple Emmy awards, the George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred I. DuPont Award.

O’Brien and her husband also created the PowHERful Foundation, which helps get young women get into and through college.

Follow her on Twitter: @soledadobrien