Ali Velshi, chief correspondent for MSNBC and host of Velshi on that network, will host the seventh annual awards ceremony. The honorees are Lynsey Addario, MacArthur Fellow, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and author; Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, The New York Times; Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, business executive and lecturer; and Zuriel Oduwole, global education advocate, filmmaker and presidential advisor.
Bareilles has amassed six top 10 albums on the Billboard 200, including Kaleidoscope Heart, which debuted at No. 1 in September 2010. Bareilles's biggest hit on the Hot 100 is "Love Song," which reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2008 and ranked No. 3 on Billboard's recently-published list of "The 100 Greatest Songs About the Music Industry: Staff List."
Bareilles won a Grammy for best American roots performance for "Saint Honesty" and has received three Tony nominations, including best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical for a revival of Into the Woods. She also co-hosted the 2018 Tony Awards with Josh Groban.
Founded in 1945 with the creation of the CARE Package, CARE is a leading humanitarian organization dedicated to saving lives, defeating poverty, and achieving social justice. This year, CARE and partners worked in 109 countries implementing 1,671 poverty-fighting development and humanitarian aid projects and initiatives that reached 167,000,000 people. To learn more, visit www.care.org.