Donna Brazile

Veteran Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile is an adjunct professor, author, syndicated columnist, and Fox News contributor. She has worked on every presidential campaign from 1976 through 2000, when she served as presidential campaign manager for former Vice President Al Gore. Brazile is also founder and managing director of Brazile & Associates LLC, a general consulting, grassroots advocacy and training firm. She is author of the best-selling autobiography Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics and co-author of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics, which won the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction. Brazile is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University where she shares her passion for encouraging young people to vote, work within the system to strengthen it and run for public office. In the media, she served as a political contributor on CNN; consultant to ABC News; regularly appeared as commentator on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos; and frequent contributor to NPR. Washingtonian named Brazile one of the '100 most powerful women', Essence named her one of the top 50 women in America, and O, The Oprah Magazine chose Ms. Brazile as one of its 20 "remarkable visionaries" for the magazine's first-ever O Power List.