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Endyia Kinney-Sterns

CEO & President

OWN

Endyia Kinney-Sterns is the executive director of programming and development for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. She joined the company in May 2011. Currently she oversees day-to-day development of new original programming for the network.

An accomplished television producer and executive, Kinney-Sterns has over 13 years of entertainment television experience producing shows for high-profile networks including VH1, CBS, NBC, HGTV and production companies such as Buena Vista Television, Arnold Shapiro Productions and LMNO. She also established her own production company, Seraphim Entertainment, where she was blessed to option two of her original shows, a drama series and an animated project. Kinney-Sterns held the title of senior director of programming and development for TV ONE, where she was responsible for the day-to-day supervision of production and programming for popular series including Baisden After Dark, Who's Got Jokes and Black and Men Revealed. She also co-developed and created the brand defining hit show Unsung.

Kinney-Sterns spent over four years working in programming and development at BET where she was responsible for overseeing production and post production for the network's top-rated series College Hill and the highest rated show in BET history at the time, Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is. She also supervised the day-to-day production of The Mo'Nique Show as well as the hit music competition show Sunday Best. Prior to her positions at BET and TV ONE, Kinney-Sterns produced reality, talk/variety and lifestyle shows including the Emmy Award-winning syndicated series The Wayne Brady Show, Big Brother 4 and The Other Half among others.

Kinney-Sterns is passionately involved in a number of children's organizations. She works with the Children's Hunger Fund in helping to move their vision forward to see that no child goes without meal, is active with Zoe Ministries to help stop child trafficking overseas and regularly speaks to inner-city girls about pursuing their dreams.

She currently resides in Porter Ranch, California with her husband, Brigg Sterns, and her two sons, Judah and Cairo.

Speaking on: Speed Pitching Two; 30 MINS WITH Endyia Kinney-Sterns, OWN

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