2006 Honorees

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.

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is a nationally recognized author, economist and the president and CEO of Last Word Productions, Inc. As a writer and syndicated columnist, her work appears regularly in USA Today, Ms. Magazine, Essence Magazine, Black Issues in Higher Education and the Progressive. Her weekly columns appear in numerous newspapers across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Charlotte Observer, the New Orleans Tribune, the Detroit Free Press and the San Francisco Examiner.

In addition to her columns, Malveaux has also published a number of books. Malveaux received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Boston College and earned a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She serves on the boards of the Economic Policy Institute, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, Women Building for the Future - Future PAC and the Recreation Wish List Committee of Washington, D.C.

Malveaux appears regularly on television and has made numerous appearances on CNN, BET, as well as “Evening Exchange,” the Howard University television program. She has also appeared on PBS’s “To The Contrary,” ABC's “Politically Incorrect,” Fox News Channel's “The O'Reilly Factor” and stations such as C-SPAN, MSNBC and CNBC. She has hosted talk radio programs in Washington, D.C., San Francisco and New York.

Take a Stand Honorary Committee 2006

Diane Hammer
Curdina Hill
Meizhu Lui
Cheng Imm Tan
Lynn Murray
Barbara Neely
Sarah Ann Shaw
Iona Smith Nze
Sherry Tucker-Brown