Donna Brazile at Stanford

On Monday, April 6 the Stanford NAACP hosts an intimate conversation with CNN political commentator and former campaign manager to Presidential Candidate Al Gore, Donna Brazile. The event, “100 Days…100 Years: Obama’s Report Card and Black America,” will feature Political Scientist James L. Taylor interviewing Brazile about the opening months of the Obama Administration, the transformation of politics that has transpired and the implications for African American individuals and their communities. The doors of Kresge Auditorium on Stanford’s campus will open at 6:00pm and the event will start promptly at 6:30pm. The event is free with SUID, free to students of any surrounding schools with identification, and is $5 to the general public.

Donna Brazile is a New Orleans, Louisiana who has been involved in politics and advocacy for four decades. She worked on the 20th Anniversary of the March on Washington with Rev. Jesse Jackson, and she was the first African American presidential campaign manager when she ran Al Gore campaign’s in the 2000.  During the 2008 campaign, she appeared daily on CNN and served as Chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute. Currently, she is Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation for the DNC. She is also founder and managing director of Brazile & Associates LLC, a general consulting, grassroots advocacy, and training firm based in Washington, D.C. and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.

A native of Long Island, New York, Dr. James L. Taylor received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and is an Associate Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco. His dissertation addressed the Million Man March, and his subsequent research concerns contemporary black politics, political leadership, black political ideology and religion and politics. He previosuly interviewed the daughter of Malcolm X, Attallah Shabazz, while teaching at Pepperdine University in the early 1990s. In addition, he is the President-Elect of the National Conference on Black Political Scientists, a forty-year-old academic association committed to studing, enhancing and promoting the political aspirations of people of African descent.

The event is part of Stanford NAACP year-long celebration of it’s centennial, from February 2009 to February 2010, which features events statewide that commemorate the organization’s success and strength, while highlighting the continued importance of its advocacy to end racial discrimination and inequality. Co-sponsors include Charles F. Riddell Fund, Black Community Services Center, Program in African and African American Studies, Black Graduate Students Association, Stanford in Government, Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education, Vice-Provost for Student Affairs, Program in Feminist Studies, Program in Public Policy and the Women’s Community Center.

For more information, please contact Bisi Ibrahim (ibrahimb [at] stanford [dot] edu)