| Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile will speak in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. next Tuesday, Jan. 12 at the Newark Public Library.
King's assassination triggered her commitment to political and social activism, she says, and she started local: at age 9, she campaigned for a candidate who promised to build a playground in her neighborhood.
In 2005, Donna Brazile held the Senator Wynona Lipman Chair in Women's Political Leadership at CAWP, the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, where she participated in CAWP's groundbreaking Ready to Run program. This year's Ready to Run, by the way, is March 20, with a run-up program the day before focused on women of color interested in campaigning for any level of office.
Brazile is Vice-Chair of the Democratic National Committee, in the focus areas of Voter Registration and Participation, and Chair of DNC's Voting Rights Institute.
Brazile of course was also Al Gore's campaign manager, and incidentally the first-ever African-American woman to manage a presidential campaign. She is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, a syndicated political columnist and a regular on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
The event begins at 5:30pm Tuesday, January 12 in Centennial Hall at the Main Library, 5 Washington St. in Newark. Doors open at 5 p.m. |
