Isha Isatu Sesay is a British journalist of Sierra Leonean descent. From 2005 to 2018, she worked as an anchor and correspondent for CNN International. In 2012 Sesay also joined HLN as a co-anchor for Evening Express. She left CNN in 2018 to support a girls education project called W.E. Can Lead for African girls.
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. Sesay studied at the private Fourah Bay College School in Freetown. At the age of 16, 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.
After graduating, Sesay began her television career as a researcher for a BBC talk show. In 1998 she moved to Glasgow to work for BBC Scotland, and got her first job as a TV announcer. She went on to present a variety of programmes for the BBC, CNN and TWI, before joining Sky in March 2002. At Sky, Sesay spent over three years as an anchor on Good Morning Sports Fans for Sky Sports News. She later moved to ITN, where she anchored the ITV Morning News programme, and was also a newsreader on breakfast programme GMTV. In November 2005, Sesay became a news anchor and correspondent at CNN International.
In 2014 Sesay launched W.E. Can Lead, an educational, humanitarian, non-profit organization. It was created to support African girls in receiving educational support to become future leaders. In August 2018, the program was mostly working with Nigerian girls, but it is open for girls from everywhere in Africa.
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