MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — The Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) presents political strategist Donna Brazile in a talk at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, at Mead Chapel. Brazile has become one of the most recognizable faces in politics with regular appearances on network news programs and cameo appearances on television dramas. Her talk is free and open to the public.

Brazile is vice chair of voter registration and participation at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and former interim National Chair of the Democratic National Committee as well as the former chair of the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute.

Author of the best-selling memoir Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics, Brazile is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, a syndicated newspaper columnist for Universal Uclick, a columnist for Ms. Magazine, and O, The Oprah Magazine, an on-air contributor to CNN, and ABC, where she regularly appears on This Week. She has made two cameo appearances on CBS’s The Good Wife. Most recently, Brazile has appeared on Netflix’s new series House of Cards.

Brazile’s primary passion is encouraging young people to vote, to work within the system to strengthen it, and to run for public office. Brazile is a regular speaker at colleges and universities across the country on such topics as “Inspiring Civility in American Politics,” “Race Relations in the Age of Obama,” “Why Diversity Matters,” and “Women in American Politics: Are We There Yet?”

She was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. She also sits on the boards of the National Democratic Institute, the Professional Diversity Network, the National Institute for Civil Discourse, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and the BlackAmericaWeb.com Relief Fund, Inc. She also serves as Co-Chair for Democrats for Public Education.