Brazile, Donna L.

Donna Brazile is chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute (VRI) and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The VRI was established in 2001 to help protect and promote the rights of all Americans to participate in the political process. Ms. Brazile, a veteran Democratic political strategist, was the campaign manager for Gore–Lieberman 2000, the first African-American to lead a major presidential campaign. Prior to this, she 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. She is a weekly contributor and political commentator on CNN’s Inside Politics and Late Edition and appears regularly on MSNBC’s Hardball and Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes. During the 2002 mid-term election, Donna Brazile traveled to more than 29 states and 53 congressional districts to help train Democratic activists. After the 2002 mid-term elections, she served as a media consultant and grassroots organizer for Senator Mary Landrieu (D–La.).