Soledad O’Brien to lecture at Stambaugh Auditorium

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Soledad O’Brien, award-winning journalist, documentarian, news anchor and producer, will lecture at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 16 in Stambaugh Auditorium as part of the Centofanti Symposium at Youngstown State University.

The symposium is free and open to the public, but tickets are mandatory for admission. Tickets are available 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays at the Stambaugh Auditorium box office on Fifth Avenue. There is a limit of four tickets per person.

The Centofanti Symposium was established at YSU to bring outstanding speakers to the university and the community, with the goal of raising consciousness about the challenges facing vulnerable groups in society. YSU created the James and Coralie Centofanti Center of Health and Welfare for Vulnerable Populations in 2012 under a $1 million gift from the James and Coralie Centofanti Charitable Foundation.

O’Brien was the originator of the highly successful documentary series for CNN titled “Black in America and Latino in America.” In June 2013 she launched Starfish Media Group, a multiplatform media production and distribution company dedicated to uncovering and producing empowering stories that take a challenging look at the often divisive issues of race, class, wealth, poverty and opportunity, through personal stories.

In 2013 she won 2 Emmy awards for reporting on “Kids and Race” and for the networks reporting of the 2012 Presidential election.