The Political Voices of Women

Meet The Contributors…

Catherine Morgan — Founder, The Political Voices of Women This is a blog answering the question, “Where are all the women political bloggers?” The answer is…They are here. It began simply as my response to a New York Times article on the lack of women political bloggers. What started as a list of 100 women bloggers grew to 200 (and now over 400), and then I decided to take a leap of faith and start a blog as a spin-off to the list. Now the blog and the list have taken on a life of their own, and each day they are growing and changing, mostly due to contributions of other women bloggers. I’m also at The Care2 Election Blog, BlogHer Health & Wellness, and Informed Voters.

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Joanne Bamberger – PunditMom Joanne is the blogger better known as PunditMom. Joanne has been a Democrat and a political junkie since her high school days. The highlight of her senior year wasn’t the prom — it was going to the mock presidential convention at the local college. A former broadcast journalist, Joanne is also a “recovering” attorney, a professional freelance writer and an adoptive mom who is passionate about being involved in politics and luring others into her political web. While Joanne has lived most of her life on the East Coast, she went to college and law school on the Midwest, which gives her an ‘outside the beltway’ perspective on many issues. Her seven-year-old daughter, “PunditGirl,” is glad that George W. Bush’s “turn will be over soon.” In addition to her own blog, Joanne’s writing can be found at MOMocrats, DC Metro Moms Blog, The Huffington Post and PunditMom’s Spin Cycle, among others. She has also written for a variety of national and regional outlets including MSN, Marketplace Radio and The Washington Post.

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Kay B. Day – Covering Florida I’m a journalist living in Jacksonville, Florida, and in my other life I’m a poet. In my best life I’m a wife, mom and friend. I’ve provided articles, copy and content to places like The Christian Science Monitor, The Writer, Coastal Homes, The Florida Times Union, United Press International, Sky News and many others. I currently freelance a regular column for The Writer at the magazine Web site (“Web Savvy”). I also freelance a column at Beneath the Brand, a site featuring all kinds of information about the advertising and marketing industry. I one-up articles at many different places. I’ve written one nonfiction book, ‘Killing Earl.’ It’s a memoir about a mystery illness our younger daughter experienced. I contributed recently to the hardcover creative nonfiction anthology ‘Faces of Freedom’.

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Sarah Granger – Sairy
A techie by training, Sarah first came to blogging while while
directing Internet strategy for Senator Hart’s 2004 U.S. presidential
exploratory organization. There, she led the launch of what Wired News
and political analysts called the “first true weblog to be put up by a
politician.” A writer, speaker
and campaign advisor,
she writes a weekly column about technology & new media in the ’08
election at MOMocrats, BlogHer, and
the Silicon Valley Moms Blog,
where she liveblogged their historic meetings with Elizabeth Edwards.
A more detailed bio can be found at futurecampaigns.com.

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Tami Winfrey Harris Tami Winfrey Harris is a womanist, writer, wife, stepmother, music lover, black woman, sister, nappy advocate, American, yogi, bibliophile, daughter, student, Midwesterner, liberal, gardener, eccentric…”None of these things define me, but they are the building blocks of who I am.”

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Pamela Lyn Mix together equal measures of political junkie, sports fanatic and nature lover. Add a heaping cup of Julia Sugarbaker, a pinch of Molly Ivins, a touch of tech geek, a dollop of hopeless romanticism and an endlessly questioning spirit. Pour into a bowl of southern family roots and bake in the ovens of Philadelphia and Boston and voila. You have it. My life. The evolution of a global butterfly –passionate about life, open to discovery, committed to improving social conditions, determined to fighting the spirit of Leland Gaunt, and struggling to live with grace. This sums up my life, the reason I write, and the things that I write about. I have three blogs: Pam’s Coffee Conversation <http://pamkemp.blogspot.com> is my personal commentary on politics, society and anything else that happens to come to mind that day. I make no pretenses here about being unbiased. In Get the Facts & Get Involved <http://getinvolved.pointofview316.com/index.html> I try to provide news and information of international interest in as unbiased a manner as possible. However, since I also post petitions, calls for action and other citizen advocacy resources I again do not pretend to be completely unbiased. and In Pause For Thought <http://pause4thought.pointofview316.com/> I share my thoughts on how my faith relates to today’s social, political and economic issues.

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Patricia Murphy — Citizen Jane Politics Patricia Murphy is the founder of CitizenJane Media and the editor of CitizenJane Politics, a non-partisan website for women to follow the 2008 elections. Prior to launching the website, she was Executive Editor of “The American Interest,” and worked for nine years in the U.S. Senate. She graduated from Vanderbilt University and holds a master’s degree with honors from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has written for The New York Times Wire Service, appears regularly as a political analyst in national media, including the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC and C-SPAN, and speaks frequently on media and politics, most recently at Harvard Business School.

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SJ Reidhead – I am a life-long Republican. I am dedicated to the election of good Republican candidates, be them liberal, moderate, or conservative. A writer, I have for books, all on the topic of either Tombstone or Wyatt Earp. I am currently working on a book about the anti-immigration movement and their links to various white supremacist organizations. I periodically write about Christian topics.

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Suzanne Reisman Unwilling to fully abandon my Chicago-area upbringing, I live in Manhattan with my husband and a 13 lb. rabbit, Tycho Bunnae, but insist on calling soda “pop,” and sneakers “gym shoes.” My first book, Off the (Beaten) Subway Track, is a travelogue about/guide to unusual places and things to do in NYC. My articles have appeared in New York Nonprofit Press, The Panelist, Metro New York, City Limits Magazine, Young Children, and New York Family. I also blog about life at Campaign for Unshaved Snatch (CUSS) & Other Rants, about feminism & gender at BlogHer, and about creating positive social change as a contributing editor at Just Cause. When not writing, I put my master’s degree in public administration/public policy to good use by working with non-profit organizations in New York City.

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Janet Shan

I am an operations analyst by day and a freelancer writer and blogger by night. I hail from the “no problem mon” island of Jamaica. I am a conservative Democrat who is very disillusioned with the current state of American politics where both parties are concerned.

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Dana Tuszke

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Tracy Viselli is an online media strategist, blogger, political activist, and entrepreneur. As Myrna the Minx, Viselli has been raising hell for years at her political placeblog Reno and Its Discontents ,but her online media exploits extend far beyond Reno, Nevada. Viselli is a blogging activist who created Can I Get A Link Please? to serve as a space in which independent bloggers can discuss media accountability. She also satirizes America’s cultural obsession with organization at Clutter Love. Viselli is a contributor on Women in Media and News, The Political Voices Of Women, and her online work has been discussed by a variety of national and international media outlets including; The UK TimesOnline, Politico, Huffington Post, PBS’s Media Shift, the Reno Gazette-Journal and the Reno News & Review. Viselli earned an M.A. in Teaching Writing and Literature at George Mason University and has spent most of her career working in technology management, strategic planning, and assessment in higher education. In her newest day job, Viselli uses her online expertise with Social Media as a Senior Manager at QuinStreet Media. She is one of those luckly bloggers who actually landed a job because of her blogging.

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Jill Miller Zimon Jill Miller Zimon is an award-winning freelance writer, blogger and political commentator. She has appeared as a regional roundtable panelist for Cleveland public radio and television as well as on CNN, BBC and other broadcast outlets. She provides commentary and presentations to a variety of audiences on the intersection of blogging, journalism, politics, women and other topics. You can listen to or watch her appearances here. Jill is a co-blogger at The Moderate Voice, which contributes to Newsweek.com‘s The Ruckus, and has authored her own blog, Writes Like She Talks since 2005. In Fall 2007, Jill participated in the Plain Dealer/cleveland.com blog experiment, Wide Open. It was the first paid collaboration between mainstream journalism and independent political bloggers of which Jill was the only woman included (out of a total of four bloggers). More recently, Jill has covered the Cleveland Democratic Primary Debate, Women, Action and the Media (WAM!2008) conference at MIT and the First Ladies Symposium on media coverage of presidential candidates’ spouses. This spring, she presented at Case Western Reserve University’s Collaboration Technologies workshop, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s 2008 Annual Ohio Business Women’s Conference and Expo, and the White House Project’s first Go Run! training in Ohio. For eight years prior to starting her journalism career, Jill used her joint degree in law and social work at a large children and family mental health agency. She is a New England native and has a joint bachelors degree in government and sociology from Georgetown University. She has lived in Northern Ohio for nearly 20 years with her husband and three school-aged children.