Rita Coburn is known for her diverse work in print, television, radio and film with Harpo, C-Span, Biography, PBS, BET, Public Radio, Oprah Radio and Random House. Coburn is also the author of “Meant to Be,” published by Random House/Strivers Row in 2001. The Rita Coburn Whack Papers collection, containing 40+ oral history interviews and audiovisual materials from public radio work and from documentaries created for public television, is currently housed at various institutions across the United States.