Michelle Bernard

{{Infobox person

| name = Michelle Bernard

| image = MichelleBernardSun.jpg

| birthname = Michelle Denise Bernard

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|07|30}}

| birth_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.

| education = Georgetown University Law Center (JD)
Howard University (BA)

| occupation = Journalist, author, lawyer, columnist

| party = Independent

| website = {{URL|http://bernardcenter.org/}}

| credits =

}}

Michelle Denise Bernard (born July 30, 1963, Washington, D.C.){{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook 2011|year=2011|publisher=H.W. Wilson|location=Ipswich, MA|isbn=9780824211219|pages=[https://archive.org/details/currentbiography0000unse_z0h6/page/65 65–67]|chapter=Bernard, Michelle|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/currentbiography0000unse_z0h6/page/65}} is an American journalist, political analyst, lawyer, author, and President and CEO of the Bernard Center For Women, Politics & Public Policy.

Education

Bernard graduated from Howard University with a B.A. in philosophy and a minor in political science. She has a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center.

Early life and career

She was a partner at the lobbyist and law firm Patton Boggs. In 2000, she was a member of the Bush-Cheney Presidential Inaugural Committee. She was formerly President and CEO of Independent Women's Forum and Independent Women's Voice.Ronnee Schreiber, 'Pro-Women, Pro-Palin, Antifeminist: Conservative Women and Conservative Movement Politics', in Crisis of Conservatism? The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, & American Politics After Bush, Gillian Peele, Joel D. Aberbach (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 135 She was the chair for the District of Columbia's Redevelopment Land Agency, which negotiated the public-private financing of the District's MCI Arena.[http://www.c-span.org/video/?205250-1/qa-michelle-bernard C-SPAN Q&A with Michelle Bernard]. C-SPAN. 15 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-11{{cite web|title=Women and Men, Work and Power|work=Fast Company |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/33732/women-and-men-work-and-power|publisher=fastcompany.com|date=February 1998|accessdate=15 July 2015 |last1=Muoio |first1=Anna }}

Bernard is frequently a political and legal analyst for MSNBC, Al Jazeera,Bernard, Michelle [http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/third-rail/2015/6/is-the-us-election-season-too-long1.html Is the US Election Season Too Long?]. Al Jazeera. June 6, 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015 CNN,Bernard, Michelle [https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/smer/date/2014-06-14/segment/01 Smerconish transcript] CNN.14 June 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2014 NPR and The McLaughlin Group. She is a columnist for Roll Call;Bernard, Michelle [http://cqrollcall.com/about-cq-roll-call/masthead/ Masthead CQ Roll Call]. Roll Call March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 5, 2016 and also a contributor for 'The Seventy-Four',Bernard, Michelle [https://www.the74million.org/page/supporters The74million.org Journalism Advisory Board]. www.the74million.org. June 23, 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015{{cite web|title=When Parents Are Arrested for 'Stealing' a Public Education|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftea2eF2fdM|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=4 August 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150804215649/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftea2eF2fdM|archivedate=4 August 2015|date=3 August 2015}}The Root, The Washington Post'sBernard, Michelle [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/09/06/congress-cannot-ignore-weigh-violence-against-women-in-syria/ Congress cannot ignore violence against women in Syria]. Washington Post September 6, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2014 "She the People," and the Huffington Post.Bernard, Michelle [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-bernard/amma-asantes-belle_b_5319226.html Amma Asante's 'Belle' May Lead to Real Freedom for Women Around the World]. Huffington Post. May 14, 2014. Retrieved July 13, 2014

She is an Independent.

She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Hampton University and sits on the board of directors of the Coalition for Opportunity in Education and the executive board of the International Women's Forum of Washington, D.C. where she is the Leadership Foundation Liaison.{{cite web|last=Bernard|first=Michelle|title=HU to Host Town Hall Meeting|url=http://news.hamptonu.edu/release/HU-to-Host-Town-Hall-Meeting-on-School-Choice|publisher=hamptonu.edu|accessdate=22 August 2014

|date=23 January 2014}}{{cite web|last=Bernard|first=Michelle|title=ABOUT THE COALITION|url=http://opportunityined.org/about-the-coalition/|publisher=opportunityined.org|accessdate=12 December 2014|date=12 December 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20141213010220/http://opportunityined.org/about-the-coalition/|archivedate=13 December 2014}}{{cite web|last=Bernard|first=Michelle|title=IWFDC Our Members - IWFDC|work=IWFDC |url=https://iwfdc.org/our-members/|publisher=iwfdc.org|accessdate=12 December 2014|date=12 December 2014}} Additionally, she is a member of the advisory board of the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence,{{cite web|last=Bernard|first=Michelle|title=ABCTE|url=http://abcte.org/about-us/board/|publisher=abcte.org|accessdate=12 December 2014|date=12 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217095114/http://abcte.org/about-us/board/|archive-date=17 December 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} and a speaker for the Washington Speaker's Bureau.

{{cite web|last1=Bernard|first1=Michelle|title=Michelle Bernard - Washington Speaker's Bureau|url=http://www.washingtonspeakers.com/speakers/speaker.cfm?SpeakerID=6410|publisher=www.washingtonspeakers.com|accessdate=19 August 2014}}

Her family heritage is Jamaican American, saying in an interview with Bill Steigerwald, "My parents are American citizens, but they come from Jamaica. I was raised with very American and Jamaican values. In our culture, we have a very strong sense of pride and of family honor and of self-reliance."Bill Steigerwald, "Michelle Bernard Looks for the Right McCain" "Anderson Free Press" August 29, 2008 [https://archive.today/20120717093553/http://www.andersonfreepress.net/node/11642]

Awards

Bernard was granted the 2016 Howard University Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award in the Fields of Media, Journalism and Public Policy.{{cite web|title=Charter Day Howard University|url=https://www.howard.edu/charterday/awards.htm/|publisher=howard.edu|date=1 February 2016|accessdate=23 February 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160211094521/http://www.howard.edu/charterday/awards.htm|archivedate=11 February 2016}}
Bernard was named the Spring 2015 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics by Iowa State University on March 23, 2015.{{cite web|title=The Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics|url=https://cattcenter.las.iastate.edu/2015/03/26/spring-2015-michelle-bernard/|publisher=cattcenter.las.iastate.edu|date=23 March 2015|accessdate=15 July 2015}}
She received the Anvil of Freedom Award for Journalism and Democracy from the University of Denver's Estlow International Center for Journalism & New Media on January 23, 2015.

{{cite web|title=Anvil of Freedom|url=http://estlow.org/anvil-of-freedom/|publisher=estlow.org|date=23 January 2015|accessdate=7 February 2015}}

Also, she was named in the November 2014 of Essence Magazine as a Rising Star in their Money & Power list.{{cite web|title= Risings Stars: Michelle Bernard|url=http://m.essence.com/2014/10/02/rising-stars-michelle-bernard/|publisher=essence.com|date=2 October 2014}}

Personal life

Bernard was married to CNN correspondent Joe Johns until the couple divorced in 2008.{{ cite news|last1=Bernard|first1=Michelle|title=Single Mothers Are Not Responsible For A Decline In Newspaper Sales|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-bernard/single-mothers-are-not-responsible-for-a-decline-in-newspaper-sales_b_4037946.html|publisher=Huffington Post|accessdate=19 August 2014|date=3 October 2013}}

{{cite web|last1=Cook |first1=John |title=Softball Interview Question Leads to Awkward Answer |url=http://gawker.com/5205389/softball-interview-question-leads-to-awkward-answer |publisher=Gawker |accessdate=14 July 2014 |date=9 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090829180312/http://gawker.com/5205389/softball-interview-question-leads-to-awkward-answer |archivedate=29 August 2009 }}{{cite web|title=Michelle Bernard: 'The Republican Party Needs to Find Its Soul' |url=http://www.iwf.org/news/2435006/Michelle-Bernard:-%27The-Republican-Party-Needs-to-Find-Its-Soul%27 |accessdate=14 July 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714183349/http://www.iwf.org/news/2435006/Michelle-Bernard%3A-%27The-Republican-Party-Needs-to-Find-Its-Soul%27 |archivedate=14 July 2014 |date=9 April 2009 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |last1=Hobbs |first1=Christie |title=IWF Names New President |url=http://www.iwf.org/iwfmedia/show/19020.html |publisher=Independent Women's Forum |accessdate=23 December 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020010321/http://iwf.org/iwfmedia/show/19020.html |archivedate=20 October 2007 |date=18 October 2005}} Bernard remarried in 2014 and lives in Potomac, Maryland with her two children from her previous marriage. Her second husband, Keith Bell, passed away in 2019.{{cite web | title=Michelle Bernard meets with the LNP editorial board | url=https://www.youtube.com/embed/AiCvLUYCaM4|publisher=Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. | accessdate=15 June 2016 | date=19 January 2015}}

Bibliography

Bernard, Michelle D. (2013), Moving America Toward Justice: The Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law, 1963-2013, The Donning Company Publishers. {{ISBN|978-1-57864-849-8}}
Bernard, Michelle D. (2007), Women’s Progress: How Women Are Wealthier, Healthier, and More Independent Than Ever Before, Spence Pub. {{ISBN|1-890626-69-4}}

References

External links

[http://bernardcenter.org Bernard Center for Women, Politics & Public Policy]
{{C-SPAN|1013186}}
[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-bernard/ Michelle Bernard] at The Huffington Post
[http://sojo.net/biography/michelle-d-bernard Article archive at Sojourners]

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