Maria Shriver Signs With CAA

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EXCLUSIVE: Maria Shriver has signed with CAA for representation. The agency will now help to identify opportunities for the Peabody and multiple Emmy Award-winning journalist, and for her company Shriver Media, through unscripted and scripted television content, film, summits—like her recent Sounds True collaboration, Radically Reframing Aging—and podcasting.

CAA will also pursue opportunities in the publishing space for her digital outlet The Sunday Paper and her Penguin Random House imprint The Open Field, while repping Shriver for speaking engagements.Shriver is a seven-time New York Times bestselling author, NBC News Special Anchor, and the founder of both The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement at the Cleveland Clinic and Shriver Media, a for-benefit media enterprise that produces documentary films, summits and The Sunday Paper.

In addition, she is the co-founder, with her son Patrick, of the mission-driven brain health and wellness brand, MOSH. A portion of the proceeds from all MOSH products goes toward funding women-based research through the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement.WAM was the very first non-profit focused exclusively on women and Alzheimer’s disease. (Shriver broke new ground in 2010 when, in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association, The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s reported for the first time that women are at an increased risk for the disease.) To date, the organization has raised millions of dollars for women-based research and has awarded grants to researchers around the country to study women’s neurological health.

WAM merged with the Cleveland Clinic in February of this year—working with the nonprofit to build the nation’s first Alzheimer’s disease prevention center for women in