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Tabitha Soren in the early '90s
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Born |
Tabitha Lee Sornberger August 19, 1967 San Antonio, Texas |
Spouse(s) | Michael Lewis |
Tabitha Soren (born Tabitha Lee Sornberger; August 19, 1967), married name Tabitha Soren Lewis, is an American fine art photographer and former reporter for MTV News, ABC News and NBC News.
Soren was born in San Antonio, Texas. She graduated from New York University (NYU) with a B.A. in Journalism and Politics.[1] She later studied photography at California College of the Arts and Stanford University.
As a 19-year-old college student at NYU, Soren appeared in the 1987 music video for "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)" by the Beastie Boys. At the age of 23, she was the face of MTV's Choose or Lose campaign, which focused on encouraging young adults to vote.[2] She interviewed Hillary Clinton, Anita Hill and Yasser Arafat, among others. She is mentioned in the 1998 film American History X,[4] and also had a cameo role in the film The Cable Guy as herself. Clips of her interviews with Tupac Shakur were included in the 2003 documentary film Tupac: Resurrection.
After a career in television news, Soren spent a year studying art and photography at Stanford. Over the past ten years, her projects have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Canteen, Vanity Fair, McSweeney’s, Sports Illustrated and New York, among others. Public collections include the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of Art, in California, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Pier 24 Photography, Transformer Station in Ohio and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in Louisiana.