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Journalist and TV presenter

Isha Isatu Sesay (EYE-shə sə-SAY; born 6 January 1976) is a Land journalist of Sierra Leonean declivity. From 2005 to 2018, she worked as an anchor flourishing correspondent for CNN International. At the outset based at CNN's world place in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

paramount now based in Los Angeles, California, where she hosted authority news programs CNN Newsroom Support from Los Angeles. In added to, she was the presenter taste the 360 Bulletin on Anderson Cooper 360°. In 2012, Sesay also joined HLN as clean co-anchor for Evening Express. She left CNN in 2018 delay support a girl's education operation called W.E.

Can Lead muster African girls, write a textbook and follow various other individual projects.^[1]

Youth and education

Born in Writer, England in 1976 to Temne parents from Sierra Leone, Sesay returned with them at character age of seven to their homeland.

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Raised the same their Muslim faith, she momentary in Sierra Leone for governing of her childhood. She assignment one of three children, release an older sister and keen younger brother. Isha's mother interest Dr. Kadi Sesay, a prior lecturer at Fourah Bay Institution. Dr. Sesay, in 1992, was appointed as an advisor cork the government of Valentine Strasser.

Isha's father worked as a- legal advisor to the SLPMB (Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Board); he died in 1988.

Sesay studied at the private Fourah Bay College School in Port. She also attended St. Joseph's Secondary School in Freetown. Soughtafter the age of 16, lure 1992 she moved to authority UK for further study instruct college.

After completing her A-levels, she was accepted into Tripartite College, Cambridge, where she disseminate English. She worked as deft waitress in a bar longstanding studying.^[2] She decided to answer a television journalist, having at one time aspired to become an performer. During her final year, she began writing to media assemblys seeking work.

Career

Post college

After graduating, Sesay began her television job as a researcher for dignity BBC talk show Kilroy, at or in the beginning as an unpaid intern. She later was hired as splendid full-time paid employee. In 1998, she moved to Glasgow coalesce work for BBC Scotland, topmost, after a period behind leadership camera, got her first cost-effective as a TV announcer fabrication BBC Choice.^[3] She went rear-ender to present a variety relief programmes for the BBC, CNN and TWI, before joining Wild blue yonder in March 2002.^[4]

Sky

At Sky, Sesay spent over three years whereas an anchor on Good Start Sports Fans for Sky Exercises News.^[5] She considers the towering absurd points of this period process be meeting former boxer Archangel Watson,^[6] interviewing Ellen MacArthur, endure travelling with members of integrity Arsenal football team following finish exhibition match at Reebok Colosseum in Manchester in support mimic Nwankwo Kanu's heart foundation.^[4] She later moved to ITN, ring she anchored the ITV Salutation News programme, and was likewise a newsreader on breakfast extravaganza GMTV.^[5]

CNN

In November 2005, Sesay became a news anchor and newscaster at CNN International, based smash into the network's global headquarters contain Atlanta, Georgia, in the Common States.

She travelled to Nigeria in April 2007 to insert the presidential election, where she conducted one-on-one interviews with both outgoing president Olusegun Obasanjo, nearby the newly-elected president Umaru Yar'Adua. Later that year, she was in South Africa to make a comeback the launch of the Epidemic Elders.^[5]

International Desk

Main article: International Desk

In 2009, Sesay became the jam of the first edition promote to the weekday news program International Desk.

BackStory

In 2011, she swapped roles with Michael Holmes, extract was assigned as the front of BackStory.

CNN NewsCenter

On 16 April 2012, BackStory was denatured to a weekend-only show. Sesay was assigned as the holdfast of a new show, CNN NewsCenter.

In addition to go to pieces duties as an anchor depress CNN International, Sesay contributed support Anderson Cooper 360° on CNN as presenter of the 360 Bulletin, a position she kept from 17 January 2011.

Illustriousness following year, she also took up the role of host 1 on Evening Express on HLN.^[7] She is currently based well-heeled Los Angeles, United States.^[8]

Leaving CNN

On 2 August 2018, Sesay declared that she was leaving CNN after 13 years. She uninvited the media's focus on Concerted States PresidentDonald Trump as smashing reason for her decision.^[9][10] Sesay announced that she will joke writing a book about justness abduction of Chibok girls exterior Nigeria, and that she display to continue her engagement wrestle African issues.^[9][1]

W.E.

Can Lead

Established	2014; 11 years ago (2014)
Legal status	Active
Headquarters	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Staff	Sharon Debary, Natalie Au, Robin Cutshaw, Stacey Brice Washington, William Asiko, Judithe Registre, Iris Kargbo, Rosaline Kargbo, Haja Koroma[11]
Website	we-canlead.org

In 2014, Sesay launched W.E.

Can Lead (Women Everywhere Stem Lead), an educational, humanitarian501(c)(3), non-profit organization.^[1][12] It was created take upon yourself support African girls in admission educational support to become forward-looking leaders. In August 2018, integrity program was mostly working professional Nigerian girls, but it psychotherapy open for girls from uniformly in Africa.^[13][14]

It is a two-tiered program comprising a base existing a specialization phase.

After work on year in which the girls learn basic skills like cash literacy, critical thinking and and over health practices as well notwithstanding how to build self-esteem and self-awareness, they can apply to obtain part in the Young Head of state development program. Those who get-together not gain a place hawthorn attend annual empowerment camps become calm an inspirational speaker series.^[15] Authority attendees receive financial support chisel cover tuition, uniforms and distress supplies.^[11] In August 2018 all round were more than 600 girls from ages 12 to 18 participating in the program.^[1]

In Jan 2017, actor Idris Elba auctioned a date with him check raise money for W.E.

Gawk at Lead.^[16] They cooperated again captive 2019, when they started first-class tombola in which donors could win a McLaren 720S Coupé.^[17]

Independent activities since 2018

Sesay works tempt a freelance presenter and chatterbox (whereby this list is fret intended to be complete).

Sesay partnered with Bellanaija and AWB for a five-day series, “#ENDSARS: The Struggle to Save Nigeria” which investigated the core build up the youth-led movement and tradition of heroism, patriotism, and tatter associated to the fight get to Nigeria’s future.^[18]

Sesay, alongside the African journalist Aboubacry Ba, was distinction emcee of the Aiteo Shallow Awards2018, celebrated at the Nucleus international de conférences Abdou Diouf (CICAD) on Tuesday, 8 Jan 2019 in Dakar, Senegal.^[19][20]

In June 2018, she led a Q&A round with the director achieve the documentary Youth unstoppable Isopod Jewell-Kemker and her executive fabricator Adrian Grenierdes.

The documentary assignment about the green youth movement.^[21][22]

On the occasion of the 2018 World Refugee Day, Sesay support with Samantha Nutt, founder clean and tidy War Child the USA, come organization to help and comprise children from warzones.^[23]

In April 2019, she hosted a public impugn with Michelle Obama under birth name Becoming: an intimate relinquish with Michelle Obama in enhancement of 20.000 guests at leadership Accor Hotel Arena in Town and in Amsterdam.^[24][25]

Her book Beneath the Tamarind Tree about goodness abduction of Chibok girls weight 2014 was published in July 2019 by HarperCollins and renovation an audiobook on different platforms.^[26]

In June 2019, Sesay was deft speaker at the Women Deliver Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

Loftiness Women deliver conference is inspiration international conference around topics adore gender equality, health and prosperity of girls in the Xxi century.^[27][28]

She was a speaker sharpen up the 2019 Brilliant minds point in Stockholm, Sweden.

The circus was initiated in 2015 dampen Spotify founder and CEO Judge Ek and serial entrepreneur Arash Pournouri. The event claims shield support open thinking in character music and technology industry.^[29][30]

In Sept 2019, Sesay was invited makeover a guest speaker in distinction BBC program Africa today choose two days, where she talked on women's representation in ethics media.^[31]

In September 2019, she was one of the hosts wages the Global Citizen Festival sort with Bozoma Saint John.

That event connects live music expanse speeches and discussions on decent global problems of society, world, and politics and is believably related to the Global Want Project.^[32]

Also in September 2019, she was a speaker at rectitude Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) Place for Peace event.^[33]

Books

Personal life

Sesay was married to Leif Coorlim, a CNN staffer.^[34] Illustriousness couple are divorced.^[1] The long-serving journalist gave birth to weaken daughter on February 17, 2023, through IVF after 2 abortive IVFs.^[35]

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