EXCLUSIVE: Maria Shriver has signed with CAA for illustration. The company will now assist to determine alternatives for the Peabody and a number of Emmy Award-winning journalist, and for her firm Shriver Media, by means of unscripted and scripted tv content material, movie, summits—like her current Sounds True collaboration, Radically Reframing Getting old—and podcasting. CAA may also pursue alternatives within the publishing area for her digital outlet The Sunday Paper and her Penguin Random Home imprint The Open Discipline, whereas repping Shriver for talking engagements.
Shriver is a seven-time New York Occasions bestselling creator, NBC Information Particular Anchor, and the founding father of each The Girls’s Alzheimer’s Motion on the Cleveland Clinic and Shriver Media, a for-benefit media enterprise that produces documentary movies, summits and The Sunday Paper. As well as, she is the co-founder, along with her son Patrick, of the mission-driven mind well being and wellness model, MOSH. A portion of the proceeds from all MOSH merchandise goes towards funding women-based analysis by means of the Girls’s Alzheimer’s Motion.
WAM was the very first non-profit targeted solely on girls and Alzheimer’s illness. (Shriver broke new floor in 2010 when, in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Affiliation, The Shriver Report: A Girl’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s reported for the primary time that ladies are at an elevated danger for the illness.) So far, the group has raised tens of millions of {dollars} for women-based analysis and has awarded grants to researchers across the nation to check girls’s neurological well being. WAM merged with the Cleveland Clinic in February of this yr—working with the nonprofit to construct the nation’s first Alzheimer’s illness prevention heart for ladies in Las Vegas in 2020.
Shriver additionally revealed the coloring e-book, Shade Your Thoughts, designed to interact people with Alzheimer’s and the individuals who take care of and love them—and exec produced the 2014 movie, Nonetheless Alice, for which Julianne Moore gained the Finest Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a linguistics professor dealing with early-onset Alzheimer’s illness. The Alzheimer’s Affiliation awarded Shriver its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing her international advocacy and activism, in 2017.
Shriver served because the First Girl of California from 2003-2010, working all through this era on behalf of girls and households—notably these dwelling getting ready to poverty. She additionally produced the Girls’s Convention, which grew to become the biggest of its sort on the planet below her management, elevating tens of millions of {dollars} that funded scholarships, supported home violence and poverty initiatives, and single-handedly revived the California Historical past Museum. One in all The Girls’s Convention’s many options was the Minerva Awards, which Shriver created to honor and assist girls who made extraordinary contributions to all walks of life, from the humanities to group activism to enterprise and innovation. Girls bestowed with the glory included the likes of Sandra Day O’Connor, Billie Jean King, Gloria Steinem, Oprah Winfrey, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Jane Goodall, amongst others.
As well as, Shriver govt produced such documentaries because the Emmy-nominated HBO movie, Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Occasions of Katrina Gilbert, Netflix’s Take Your Drugs and HBO’s docuseries The Alzheimer’s Mission. She continues to be represented by Brillstein Leisure Companions and Dupree Miller.
