WHITE PLAINS, NY — Kids X-Press Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to promoting literacy, is proud to announce the addition of veteran CNN reporter/anchor Brooke Baldwin to its list of Dream Big honorees at its annual Touch the Sky reception.
The gala will begin at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 28, at C.V. Rich Mansion in White Plains. News 12 Westchester reporter/anchor Tara Rosenblum will serve as the event’s emcee.
Baldwin, who joined CNN in 2008, has done onsite reporting from some of the nation’s most impactful events, including the Boston Marathon bombing, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and the Oklahoma City tornado disaster. She also has anchored breaking news coverage about major stories such as the death of Osama bin Laden and the crisis in Syria. And she worked with the network’s Special Investigations Unit to complete her first hour-long documentary, To Catch a Killer, which won a Silver World Medal for Best Investigative Report at the 2012 New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards.
Rosenblum joined News 12 in the summer of 2004 as a reporter and fill-in anchor, and she is now the anchor for News 12 Westchester and Hudson Valley Weekend Edition. She has earned more than 100 major industry awards, including 4 Emmy awards and 35 Emmy nominations, four of them for New York’s top ‘General Assignment’ reporter. In 2014, she was the most nominated reporter in the state and broke an Emmy record by garnering the most individual craft reporter categories in award history.
Kids X-Press has also announced two youth honorees. Sacha Sulaiman and Lauren Sulaiman, sisters from Brooklyn, will receive the Touch the Sky Youth Award for achievement and participation in the program. Sacha, 16, and Lauren, 12, have been submitting their work to Kids X-Press for several years. Passionate about literacy, they enjoy writing poetry and factual content pieces, and their submissions require little-to-no editing.
Baldwin and the Sulaiman sisters join an impressive list of honorees who embody the lessons that Kids X-Press espouses to its students – that success can be achieved through hard work, determination and dreaming big.
The other honorees are Kenneth R. Theobalds, vice president of Government & Regulatory Affairs, Entergy; Peter Herrero Jr., founder and general manager of the New York Hospitality Group; Tom Kallish, founder of Tommie Copper Inc.; and Steve Jones, managing partner of Jones Morrison, LLP. A special Founder’s Award will be given to Nivia Viera, founder of Kids X-Press and long-time publisher of its magazine, who retired in May after 14 years with the organization.
Founded in 2001, Kids X-Press, Inc. encourages children of all abilities and all ethnic, social and economic backgrounds to express themselves by providing them with a forum through which they can communicate about the world from a kid’s eye view. Written by children and for children, the award-winning Kids X-Press magazine is printed quarterly, with an annual readership of more than 170,000. Its contributors range in age from 7 to 14 and are generally enrolled in a variety of after-school activities, enrichment programs and community organizations in conjunction with schools, non-profits and shelters.
