“Talentoso!”: 10 Talented Afro-Latino Writers Who You Should Know And Read

Soledad O’Brien

Born to an Afro-Cuban mother and an Irish-Australian father, O’Brien attended Harvard, alongside her five siblings. Despite not obtaining her degree until she returned to school in 2000, her journalism career began in the early ’90s, where she worked as an associate producer and news writer at WBZ-TV. She later worked on NBC Nightly News, Today, “The Know Zone,” The Next Step, and is behind Black in America. She was most recently the host of Starting Point on CNN. O’Brien has won an Emmy and NAACP Award. Also, she has appeared on “Top 100 Irish Americans,” “Groundbreaking Latina of the Year,” and in 2006 was featured as one of Newsweek’s “15 People Who Make America Great.” In 2010, O’Brien co-authored The Next Big Story: My Journey through the Land of Possibilities, which documents some of the biggest reporting moments during her career.