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The Multicultural Lecture Series
presents
Donna Brazile
"Race and Poverty, the Lessons of Katrina and Rita"
Donna
Brazile, the first African American to lead a major presidential campaign,
will speak on Wednesday, November 2, 2005 at **11:00
A.M.** in the Kendall Hall Performance Center . This
lecture is free and open to the public.
Donna Brazile is Founder and Managing Director of Brazile and Associates, LLC, a political consulting and grassroots-organizing firm based in the District of Columbia. Brazile, Chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute (VRI) and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, is a senior political strategist and former Campaign Manager for Gore-Lieberman 2000 - the first African American to lead a major presidential campaign.
Prior to joining the Gore campaign, Brazile was Chief of Staff and Press Secretary to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia where she helped guide the District's budget and local legislation on Capitol Hill.
Brazile is the best selling author of Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics. She is a frequent contributor and political commentator on CNN’s Inside Politics and Crossfire. In addition, she is a columnist for Roll Call Newspaper and a contributing writer for Ms. Magazine.
In addition to working on political campaigns, Brazile has served as a senior lecturer and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland and Georgetown University as well as a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics. She is presently the Winona Lipman Chair at Rutgers University.
Brazile is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including
Washingtonian Magazine's 100 Most Powerful Women in Washington, D.C.
and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Award for Political
Achievement. Brazile, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana earned her
Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge
and received the degree of Doctor of Humane letters honoris causa
from Louisiana State University at its Spring Commencement.
