Who Is Donna Brazile?
(BALTIMORE - November 26, 2008) - On December 4th, Sojourner-Douglass College will feature a special presentation by the one and only Donna Brazile. She has had her hand in the political realm for at least three decades and has an incredibly influential voice in the realm of American politics.
So, what's her story?
According to her website, the Veteran Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile is an adjunct professor, author, and syndicated columnist.
Ms. Brazile began her political career at the age of nine when she worked to support the campaign of a city council candidate who promised to build a playground in her neighborhood. Four decades and innumerable state and local campaigns later, she has worked on every presidential campaign from 1976 through 2000, when she served as presidential campaign manager for former Vice President Al Gore.
Author of the best-selling autobiography Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics, Ms. Brazile is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a senior lecturer at the University of Maryland. In the media, she serves as a political contributor on CNN; consultant to ABC News; regularly appearing commentator on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos;and frequent contributor to NPR's Political Corner. In print and online, she is a columnist for Roll Call and is a content contributor to BlackAmericaWeb.com.
Washingtonian named Ms. Brazile one of the 100 most powerful women and Essence named her one of the top 50 women in America. The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation has bestowed upon her its award for political achievement.
Ms. Brazile dedicates herself to strengthening the American democratic process as chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute, established in 2001 to help protect and promote the rights of all American citizens to participate in the electoral process. Her passion is encouraging young people to vote, work within the system to strengthen it, and run for public office.
Former Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco appointed Ms. Brazile, a New Orleans native, a member of the board of directors of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the guiding agency charged with leading the state's rebuilding process in the aftermath of two catastrophic hurricanes.
Brazile is founder and managing director of Brazile & Associates LLC, a general consulting, grassroots advocacy, and training firm based in Washington, D.C. Washington View Tenants Association.
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