PLAYBILL: A Conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Ronan Farrow Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Journalist

and Additional panelists to be announced.

A CONVERSATION WITH U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR

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Tonight promises to be a memorable night. For the second time in Forum history, we have the rare and special opportunity to hear directly from a sitting United States Supreme Court Justice.

Justice Sotomayor is an inspiration as a brilliant legal mind who has overcome many barriers to become the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court. We look forward to hearing Justice Sotomayor talk about her life, career, and the role of the Supreme Court with award-winning journalist and moderator Soledad O’Brien. We hope this Forum inspires you to reflect on and learn more about the Supreme Court and its role in a healthy democracy.

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7:30 PM Welcome & Introductions

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7:35 PM Discussion with Justice Sonia Sotomayor Soledad O’Brien, moderator 9:10 PM End of Show

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Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice, was born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954. She earned a B.A. in 1976 from Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and receiving the Pyne Prize, the highest academic honor Princeton awards to an undergraduate. In 1979, she earned a J.D. from Yale Law School where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She served as Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office from 1979–1984. She then litigated international commercial matters in New

York City at Pavia & Harcourt, where she served as an associate and then partner from 1984–1992. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated her to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, and she served in that role from 1992–1998. In 1997, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit where she served from 1998–2009. President Barack Obama nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 26, 2009, and she assumed this role August 8, 2009.

Award-winning Journalist, Author, Host of Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien

Soledad O’Brien is a documentarian, journalist, speaker, author, and philanthropist. She is the CEO of Soledad O’Brien Productions, dedicated to telling empowering and authentic stories on a range of social issues.

O’Brien anchors and produces the political magazine program Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien She also reports regularly for HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. In 2021 she hosted the Audible-original podcast series Growing Up P.O.C.

O’Brien anchored a show for MSNBC before moving on to co-anchor NBC’s Weekend Today. In 2003, O’Brien transitioned to CNN, where she was the face of CNN’s morning news shows and where she created the documentaries

Black in America and Latino in America.

O’Brien’s coverage of race issues has won her two Emmy awards; she earned a third for her presidential election coverage.

O’Brien recently hosted American Injustice, a BET Town Hall on the future of criminal justice reform. She was a host of the A&E special Shining a Light: Conversations on Race in America. She is the author of two books, The Next Big Story and Latino in America

A graduate of Harvard University, O’Brien later served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.

She lives in New York with her husband and four children.

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