Donna Brazile

Veteran Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile is Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation at the Democratic National Committee and former interim National Chair of the Democratic National Committee, as well as the former chair of the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute. She is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, author of the best-selling memoir Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics, syndicated newspaper columnist for Universal Uclick, a columnist for Ms. magazine, and O, the Oprah Magazine, and on-air contributor to CNN and ABC, where she regularly appears on ABC’s This Week. Ms. Brazile is founder and managing director of Brazile & Associates LLC, a general consulting, grassroots advocacy, and training firm based in Washington, DC.

Aside from working for the full recovery of her beloved New Orleans, Ms. Brazile’s passion is encouraging young people to vote, to work within the system to strengthen it, and to run for public office.