Donna Brazile

Donna Brazile is founder and managing director of Brazile and Associates, LLC, a political consulting and grassroots-organizing firm based in Washington D.C. Brazile also serves as chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute and is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. She is also a popular television personality, regularly providing expert political analysis and commentary.

Brazile’s wealth of experience as a senior political strategist includes serving as campaign manager for Gore-Lieberman 2000. Brazile is the first African-American to lead a major presidential campaign. Prior to joining the Gore campaign, Brazile was chief of staff and press secretary for Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia where she helped guide the District's budget and local legislation on Capitol Hill.

In addition to her work as a political strategist, Brazile has served as a senior lecturer and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland and as a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics. She is presently the Winona Lipman Chair at Rutgers University.

A frequent contributor and political commentator on CNN’s “Inside Politics” and “Crossfire,” Brazile is also a columnist for Roll Call Newspaper and a contributing writer for Ms. Magazine. Brazile is the best selling author of “Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics.” She earned her bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Brazile tweets from @donnabrazile.