Isha Sesay

At 48 years old, Isha Sesay has this physical status:

Isha Sesay (Isha Sesay), an American journalist of Sierra Leonean and British descent, was born 6 January 1976.

She served as an anchor and reporter for CNN International from 2005 to 2018.

She was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and now based in Los Angeles, California, where she now works in Los Angeles, California. CNN Newsroom Live from Los Angeles is a cable television network.

In addition, she was the host of the 360 Bulletin on Anderson Cooper 360°.

Sesay also joined HLN as a co-anchor for Evening Express in 2012.

In 2018, she left CNN to fund a girls' education initiative called W.E. Lead for African girls, write a book, and track numerous other personal projects.

Youth and education

Born in London, England in 1976, Temne parents from Sierra Leone, Sesay, were returned to their homeland at the age of seven. She grew up in Sierra Leone for the majority of her childhood. She is one of three children, with an older sister and a younger brother. Dr. Kadi Sesay, a former lecturer at Fourah Bay College, is Isha's mother. Dr. Sesay was appointed as an advisor to Valentine Strasser's government in 1992. Isha's father served as a legal advisor to the SLPMB (Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Board); he died in 1988.

Sesay attended the private Fourah Bay College School in Freetown. She also attended St. Joseph's Secondary School in Freetown. She migrated to the United Kingdom in 1992 for further study and college at the age of 16. She was accepted into Trinity College, Cambridge, where she studied English after finishing her A-levels. When studying, she worked as a waitress in a bar. She wanted to be a television journalist but she had aspired to be an actress. She began submitting to media organisations in the hopes of finding jobs during her last year.

Personal life

Sesay was married to Leif Coorlim, a CNN staffer. The couple has been divorced.

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Career

Sesay began her television work as a researcher for BBC talk show Kilroy, first as an unpaid intern. She was later hired as a full-time paid employee. After a period behind the camera, she went to Glasgow to work for BBC Scotland in 1998 and became a TV announcer on BBC Choice. Before joining Sky in March 2002, she went on to produce a number of shows for the BBC, CNN, and TWI.

Sesay spent more than three years as an anchor on Sky Sports News' Good Morning Sports Fans. Following an exhibition match at Reebok Stadium in favor of Nwankwo Kanu's heart foundation, she considers the high points of this period to be meeting former boxer Michael Watson, interviewing Ellen MacArthur, and traveling with members of Arsenal's football team. She later moved to ITN, where she anchored the ITV Morning News programme and was also a newsreader on breakfast show GMTV.

Sesay joined CNN International in Atlanta, Georgia, the network's international headquarters, in November 2005, as a news anchor and correspondent. She went to Nigeria in April 2007 to cover Nigeria's presidential election; the national election; and one-on-one interviews with both outgoing president Olusegun Obasanjo and newly elected President Umaru Yar'Adua. She was in South Africa later this year to cover the launch of the Global Elders.

Sesay became the host of the first edition of the weekday news show International Desk in 2009.

In 2011, she and Michael Holmes switched jobs, and she was named as the host of BackStory.

BackStory was converted to a weekend-only display on April 16, 2012. CNN NewsCenter announced that Sesay was chosen as the host of a new program.

Sesay contributes to Anderson Cooper 360° on CNN in addition to her work as an anchor on CNN International as the 360 Bulletin's host, a role she has held since January 17. She took up the role of host on Evening Express on HLN the following year. She is currently based in Los Angeles, United States.

Sesay revealed on August 2nd, 2018 that she would be leaving CNN after 13 years. As a reason for her decision, she cited the media's obsession with US President Donald Trump. Sesay has revealed that she will write a book about the abduction of Chibok girls and that she will continue her work with African affairs.

Sesay unveiled W.E. in 2014, a first attempt at which we are familiar. Can Lead (Women Everywhere Can Lead), a non-profit educational and humanitarian group, not-profit corporation. It was designed to assist African girls in seeking educational assistance to become future leaders. The service was mostly focused on Nigerian girls in August 2018, but it is also open to girls from all around Africa.

It's a two-tiered scheme with a base and a specialization phase. After one year in which the girls learn basic skills such as financial literacy, critical thinking, and healthy hygiene, as well as how to boost self-confidence and self-awareness, they can enroll in the Young Leader development program. Many that do not have a place can attend annual empowerment camps and an inspirational speaker series. The attendees are given financial assistance to pay for tuition, uniforms, and other items. More than 600 girls from the ages of 12 to 18 were enrolled in the program in August 2018.

Idris Elba, an actor from January 2017, auctioned a date with him to raise money for W.E. Lead is a good idea. They joined forces again in 2019, when they launched a tombola in which contributors could win a McLaren 720S Coupe.

Sesay is a freelance host and speaker (this list is not meant to be comprehensive).

Sesay joined Bellanaija and AWB for a five-day series "#ENDSARS: The Struggle to Save Nigeria," which delves into the center of the youth movement and told tales of obolition, patriotism, and defiance related to Nigeria's resistance.

Sesay, joined by Senegalese journalist Aboubacry Ba, was the emcee of the Aiteo CAF Awards 2018, which were presented at the Centre international de conférences Abdou Diouf (CICAD) in Dakar, Senegal, on Tuesday, January 8th.

In June 2018, she led a Q&A round with jewell-Kemker's producer and executive producer Adrian Grenierdes. The film is about the green youth movement.

Sesay spoke with Samantha Nutt, the founder of War Child the United States, an organization that helps and protect children from warzones on the occasion of the 2018 World Refugee Day.

She hosted a public discussion with Michelle Obama under the title Becoming: an intimate dialogue with Michelle Obama at the Accor Hotel Arena in Paris and Amsterdam in April 2019.

Harper Collins' book Beneath the Tamarind Tree about the abduction of Chibok girls in 2014 was released in July 2019 as an audiobook on various websites.

Sesay was a speaker at the Women Deliver Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in June 2019. In the 21st century, the Women Deliver conference is an international conference on topics such as gender, health, and wellbeing of girls.

She spoke at the 2019 Brilliant minds conference in Stockholm, Sweden. The festival was launched in 2015 by Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek and serial entrepreneur Arash Pournouri. The festival is meant to promote open thinking in the music and electronics industry.

Sesay was chosen as a guest speaker in BBC Africa's two-day programme on women's representation in the media in September 2019.

She was one of the main hosts of the Global Citizen Festival in September 2019 alongside Bozoma Saint John. Live music is mixed with speeches and discussions on current global issues in culture, climate, and politics, which are closely linked to the Global Poverty Project.

She was also a speaker at the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) Place for Peace in September 2019.

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