What Is Tabitha Soren's Net Worth?
Tabitha Soren is an American photographer and former reporter who has a net worth of $20 million. That is a combined net worth with her husband of 20+ years, author Michael Lewis. They have three children.
Tabitha Soren became famous as a reporter for MTV News. She was the public face of the network's "Choose or Lose" campaign, which was designed to help inspire young people to vote. She has also worked as a reporter for ABC News and NBC News. Soren appeared in the Beastie Boys music video "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" while she was a student at NYU. Clips of her interview with Tupac Shakur were included in the documentary "Tupac: Resurrection" in 2003. Soren appeared in the movie "The Cable Guy" and in an episode of "Portlandia."
Early Life
Tabitha Soren was born on August 19, 1967, in San Antonio, Texas. Due to her father's job, she lived in seven different states, as well as Germany and the Philippines, during her childhood and teen years. After completing high school, she enrolled at New York University and completed her degree there in 1989.
Career
While at NYU, Soren appeared in the 1987 music video for "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" by the Beastie Boys. After completing school, she became the face of the MTV "Choose or Lose" campaign, which focused on encouraging young adults to vote. The campaign received the Peabody Award in May 1992. Tabitha also worked as a television reporter for NBC News and ABC News, though her primary role in the 1990s was with MTV News. She was instrumental in helping the network develop its burgeoning news segments, as she had a background and interest in politics in addition to interests in music and popular culture. She interviewed Hillary Clinton, Anita Hill, and Yasser Arafat, among a number of other prominent figures. She also interviewed Tupac Shakur. Clips of this interview were included in the 2003 documentary film "Tupac: Resurrection." Tabitha also had cameo roles in the films "The Cable Guy" and "Contact" as herself, as she had become a prominent political and cultural figure during the 1990s.
Soren then decided she wanted to focus her career on other areas. In 1997, she spent a year studying art and photography at Stanford University after being awarded a fellowship. She then began working as a photographer, doing both commercial and artistic work in her early career. Her projects have been published in "The New York Times Magazine," "Canteen," "Vanity Fair," "McSweeney's," "Sports Illustrated," and "New York," as well as a number of other publications.
Over time, Tabitha began focusing exclusively on fine art photography. Her collections have been displayed in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Pier 24 Photographer, Transformer Station at Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in Louisiana.
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In 2012, she premiered a show called "Running" at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art. The project had been shot over the course of three years in 15 different states as well as Mexico and Canada. The show featured dramatically lit, isolated individuals running in everyday settings.
In 2015, her exhibition "Fantasy Life" debuted at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles. It later traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area. The show featured images of 21 baseball players selected for the Oakland A's 2002 draft class. Soren had taken the initial images in 2002 and then followed the players for 13 years until they had all left the sport. Also in 2015, she exhibited her show "Panic Beach." The show featured a series of powerful and rugged waves along coastlines around the world.
In 2017, the Aperture Foundation published a selection of the images featured in Soren's show "Fantasy Life" in a book that featured text by Dave Eggers. The book was released just before the San Francisco City Hall opened an exhibition of over 180 of Soren's images called "Fantasy Life." During the summer of 2017, EUQINOMprojects in San Francisco exhibited work from another of Soren's series called "Surface Tension." In that project, all the images were photographed using 8×10 sheets of film. In November 2022, she exhibited at an art festival in Galway, Ireland. In February and March 2023, her work was featured in a gallery in Savannah, Georgia.
Personal Life
In 1997, Soren married Michael Lewis. Lewis is an author and financial journalist who has worked as a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. He has also written books like "Moneyball," "The Big Short," and "The Fifth Risk." They live in San Francisco, California.
The couple had three children together – Dixie, Walker, and Quinn. Tragically, in May 2021, Dixie died in a head-on collision with a semi-truck near Truckee, California. She was 19 years old.
