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Isha Sesay

Isha Isatu Sesay is a Sierra Leonean-born British journalist. She worked for CNN International as an anchor and journalist from 2005 till 2018. Stationed initially in Atlanta, Georgia, the U.S., she is currently based in Los Angeles, California, and hosts the CNN Newsroom Live from Los Angeles news programs. She was the host of Anderson Cooper 360°'s 360 Bulletin. Sesay joined HLN as a co-anchor for Evening Express in 2012. She quit CNN in 2018 to work on a girl's education project for African girls called W.E. Can Lead, publish a book, and pursue other personal endeavors.

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Early Life

Sesay was born in London, England, on January 6, 1976, to Temne parents from Sierra Leone and moved back to Sierra Leone with them when he was seven years old. She spent most of her youth in Sierra Leone, where she was raised in the Muslim religion. She is the middle kid in three, with an elder sister and a younger brother. Dr. Kadi Sesay, a former instructor at Fourah Bay College, is Isha's mother. In 1992, Dr. Sesay was hired as an advisor to Valentine Strasser's government. Isha's father worked for the SLPMB (Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Board) as a legal advisor until he died in 1988.

Sesay attended the Fourah Bay College School in Freetown, which is a private school. She also went to Freetown's St. Joseph's Secondary School. She came to the United Kingdom for higher studies and college when she was 16 years old in 1992. She was admitted into Trinity College, Cambridge, after finishing her A-levels, where she studied English. While studying, she worked as a waitress at a pub. Having previously desired to be an actress, she opted to pursue a career as a television journalist. She began writing to media organizations in search of a job during her senior year.

Early Days of Career

After completing her graduate degree, she started her vocation as a specialist in Kilroy's BBC syndicated program. She worked there as an unpaid assistant. Later, she was contracted as a complete clock by BBC, and in 1998, she moved to Glasgow to work for BBC Scotland. After some period, she made her presentation on camera as a commentator for BBC Choice. Later a short time later, she ran an assortment of shows for BBC, CNN, and TWI. She joined Sky arranged in 2002 as a grapple for Good morning sports fans and stayed for a long time in the system. Later in 2005, she got to be a reporter journalist for CNN International. As to work, she made a trip to Nigeria to cover its presidential race, South Africa to cover the dispatch of Global Elders. She turned into the host of the principal release of the weekday's news program International Desk in 2009 for the system furthermore was doled out as the moderator of Back-story in 2011 from the system. In 2012, Back-story was changed to a weekend-just show, and she was allocated as the grapple of a new show called CNN News Center. Notwithstanding her obligations for CNN, she likewise adds to Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN. Since 2012, she has started to work for the HLN organization.

Isha Sesay went back to Sierra Leone when she was still young, and she started in Freetown. When she was 16, she went back to the U.K., and she completed her level there. She studied English at Cambridge University, where she has done English. There, she decided to be a television presenter even if she was aspired to be an actress before. When she was in the final year of her career, she wrote to different media groups looking for a job.

Personal Life

Isha Sesay is a delightful columnist who has an exceptionally beguiling and alluring identity. She stands a decent stature with flawlessly hot and provocative body estimations. She is a hitched lady. Sesay was married to CNN employee Leif Coorlim.

The pair is no longer together. Isha Sesay's ex-husband, Leif Coorlim, also works for CNN. The marriage took place before many family and friends at Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The ceremony took place indoors because the meteorologist of CNN, Jen Delgado, predicted that there would be bad weather. Before she got married, she got engaged in January 2013. Only family and friends were there, but she announced it lived when she talked to Anderson Cooper. Their wedding appeared to be sentimental, exquisite, and eccentric.

Current Status

Isha Sesay is 37 now, and she is known because she campaigns for the end of child prostitution with forced labor in the United States of America and the entire world. Even if she has worked at CNN for more than seven years now, her salary or net worth is unknown. She is getting a good wage at Anderson Cooper 360 degree with 360 Bulletin while working as HLN and the co-anchor in the Evening Express.

She joined BBC before working for CNN in the researcher position. Even if she liked being an actress afterward, she decided that journalism and the media were suitable for him. She started to work as a T.V. presenter at BBC choice.

Independent activities

Sesay is a speaker and presenter who works as a freelancer. Sesay collaborated with Bellanaija and AWB on a five-day series called "#ENDSARS: The Struggle to Save Nigeria," which looked into the heart of the youth-led movement and stories of courage, patriotism, and defiance linked to the struggle for Nigeria's future.The Aiteo CAF Awards 2018, hosted by Sesay and Senegalese journalist Aboubacry Ba, were held on Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at the Centre international de conférences Abdou Diouf (CICAD) in Dakar, Senegal.

In June 2018, she moderated a Q&A session with Slater Jewell-Kemker, the filmmaker of the documentary Youth Unstoppable, and Adrian Grenierdes, the executive producer. The film is about the environmental youth movement. Sesay talked with Samantha Nutt, the founder of Conflict Child the USA, an organization that helps and protects children fleeing war zones, on the occasion of World Refugee Day 2018.

She organized a public discussion with Michelle Obama called Becoming: an intimate chat with Michelle Obama in front of 20.000 guests at the Accor Hotel Arena in Paris and Amsterdam in April 2019.


Quick Facts
Date of Birth: 06-01-1976
Nationality: British
Husband: Leif Coorlim
Marriage Date: 2013
Alma Mater: Fourah Bay College, Trinity College, Cambridge
Birth Place: Bordeaux, France
Birth Sign: Capricorn
Ethnicity: Black Ethnicity
Profession: Television journalist
Employer: CNN
Marital Status: Married
Children: Not Yet
T.V. Show(s): Evening Express
Height: 5 Feet 3 Inch
Net Worth: N/A
Birth Date: 6 Jan, 1976
Age: 44 yrs
Occupations: Journalist
News presenter
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Sierra Leone
United States of America
Birth Place: Bordeaux
Education: Trinity College
Gender: Female
Description: Journalist and News Anchor
Twitter Id: IamIshaSesay
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Last Modified: Feb 19 2023
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