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Isha Sesay Biography
Isha Isatu Sesay was born on 6 January 1976, she is a British journalist of Sierra Leonean descent. From 2005 to 2018, she worked as an anchor and correspondent for CNN International.
Originally based at CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. and now based in Los Angeles, California, where she hosted the news programs CNN Newsroom Live from Los Angeles.
In addition, she was the presenter of the 360 Bulletin on Anderson Cooper 360°. In 2012, Sesay also joined HLN as a co-anchor for Evening Express.
She left CNN in 2018 to support a girl’s education project called W.E. Can Lead for African girls, write a book and follow various other personal projects.
Early Life and Education
Isha Sesay was born in London, England in 1976 to Temne parents from Sierra Leone, Sesay returned with them at the age of seven to their homeland.
Raised in their Muslim faith, she lived in Sierra Leone for most of her childhood. She is one of three children, with an older sister and a younger brother.
Isha Sesay mother is Dr. Kadi Sesay, a former lecturer at Fourah Bay College. Dr. Sesay, in 1992, was appointed as an advisor to the government of Valentine Strasser.
Isha Sesay 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 Freetown. She also attended St. Joseph’s Secondary School in Freetown.
At the age of 16, in 1992 she moved to the UK for further study and college. After completing her A-levels, she was accepted into Trinity College, Cambridge, where she read English. She worked as a waitress in a bar while studying.
She decided to become a television journalist, having previously aspired to become an actress. During her final year, she began writing to media groups seeking work.
Isha Sesay Career
Isha Sesay works as a freelance presenter and speaker (whereby this list is not intended to be complete).
Isha Sesay partnered with Bellanaija and AWB for a five-day series, “#ENDSARS: The Struggle to Save Nigeria” which investigated the core of the youth-led movement and stories of heroism, patriotism, and defiance associated to the fight for Nigeria’s future.
Isha Sesay, alongside the Senegalese journalist Aboubacry Ba, was the emcee of the Aiteo CAF Awards 2018, celebrated at the Centre international de conférences Abdou Diouf (CICAD) on Tuesday, 8 January 2019 in Dakar, Senegal.
In June 2018, she led a Q&A round with the director of the documentary Youth unstoppable Slater Jewell-Kemker and her executive producer Adrian Grenierdes. The documentary is about the green youth movement.
On the occasion of the 2018 World Refugee Day, Sesay spoke with Samantha Nutt, founder of War Child the USA, an organization to help and protect children from warzones.
In April 2019, she hosted a public discussion with Michelle Obama under the name Becoming: an intimate conversation with Michelle Obama in front of 20.000 guests at the Accor Hotel Arena in Paris and in Amsterdam.
Her book Beneath the Tamarind Tree about the abduction of Chibok girls in 2014 was published in July 2019 by Harper Collins and as an audiobook on different platforms.
In June 2019, Isha Sesay was a speaker at the Women Deliver Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The Women deliver conference is an international conference around topics like gender equality, health and wellbeing of girls in the 21st century.
She was a speaker at the 2019 Brilliant minds event in Stockholm, Sweden. The event was initiated in 2015 by Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek and serial entrepreneur Arash Pournouri. The event claims to support open thinking in the music and technology industry.
In September 2019, Isha Sesay was invited as a guest speaker in the BBC program Africa today for two days, where she talked on women’s representation in the media.
In September 2019, she was one of the hosts of the Global Citizen Festival together with Bozoma Saint John.
This event connects live music with speeches and discussions on actual global problems of society, environment, and politics and is closely related to the Global Poverty Project.
Also in September 2019, she was a speaker at the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) Place for Peace event.
Personal Life
Isha Sesay was married to Leif Coorlim, a CNN staffer. The couple is divorced.
Isha Sesay Net Worth
Isha Sesay is a British journalist of Sierra Leonean descent. She has an estimated net worth of $2 millions.