Meryl Hartman

Biography

Meryl Hartman is an American student and television personality best known for her on-screen collaborations with her father, award-winning CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman. Since 2020, she has served as a co-host and "co-teacher" for "Kindness 101", a segment series on CBS Mornings designed to teach character development and empathy to students using her father's "On the Road" archive. In 2026, Hartman appears as a featured subject in the documentary short "All the Empty Rooms", which has been nominated for the 2026 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film. Released on Netflix in December 2025, the film chronicles her father's seven-year journey to document the bedrooms of children killed in school shootings. Within the documentary, Meryl and her brother Emmett provide a critical emotional anchor. Their presence serves as a living parallel to the victims discussed in the film, highlighting the personal stakes for her father as he explores the grief of parents who can no longer tuck their own children into bed. Beyond the documentary, Meryl continues to appear on CBS Sunday Morning and in educational materials distributed to schools nationwide. Her work on Kindness 101 has covered themes such as altruism, justice, and friendship, often filmed from her family's home in upstate New York.

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