Making their Mark: Winners of Loreen Arbus Scholarship Continue to Advance Focus on Disability
Since 2010, the Loreen Arbus Focus on Disability Scholarship, presented at the Television Academy Foundation s College Television Awards, has empowered young creators to tell inclusive, authentic stories that celebrate inclusivity. This article highlights both the first and the most recent winners of the scholarship, founded by Loreen Arbus, President of the Loreen Arbus Foundation and Loreen Arbus Productions. By funding scholarships that elevate social consciousness, her second-generation philanthropy advocates for women and girls plus the world s largest minority, people with disabilities. A longtime board member of the Television Academy Foundation, Loreen holds the double distinction of being the first woman to head programming for a U.S. network (at Showtime and Cable Health Network/Lifetime) – and was twice nominated for an Emmy.
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Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The Story of Late Night, a new CNN Original Series on the history of the iconic genre, airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Listen to the companion podcast, Behind the Desk: The Story of Late Night, here.
For more than six decades, American late night talk show hosts have sat behind large wooden desks, with guests in cushioned chairs or couches to their right. Behind them, the wall may be painted to mimic an open vista; around them, a brightly lit studio set is made more inviting through warm wood tones, mugs on a desk or in Johnny Carson s case a couple of well-placed house plants.