Donna Brazile

Donna Brazile, campaign manager for Gore 2000, is one of the nation's best-known and most-accomplished political leaders. A veteran of numerous national and statewide campaigns, Donna has worked on nine presidential campaigns, including Carter-Mondale in 1976 and 1980, Rev. Jesse Jackson's first historic bid for the presidency in 1984, Mondale-Ferraro in 1984, Gephardt for President in 1988, Dukakis-Bentsen in 1988, and Clinton-Gore in 1992 and 1996. The first African-American woman to head a major presidential campaign, Donna has been enmeshed in politics since the age of nine, when she biked from door to door campaigning for a city council candidate who promised to build a playground in her hometown of Kenner, Louisiana.

In addition to her campaign work, Donna contributes weekly to CNN's Inside Politics, Late Edition and American Morning. She is also a columnist for Roll Call Newspaper. She has taught at the University of Maryland, Harvard's Institute of Politics, and now at Georgetown University. Donna also chairs the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute (VRI) and, prior to joining the Gore campaign, was Chief of Staff and Press Secretary to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia.

Donna has received numerous awards and honors, including Washingtonian Magazine's 100 Most Powerful Women in Washington, D.C. and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Award for Political Achievement. Donna grew up near New Orleans and earned her undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Much of her family still lives in Louisiana.

Donnie Fowler

Donnie Fowler has achieved leading roles in national politics and in the high tech industry. Over the last fifteen years, Donnie has served as a senior policy advisor in Silicon Valley, worked on five presidential campaigns and was as a political appointee in the Clinton White House. He has advised dozens of companies, policymakers, public advocacy groups, and political campaigns how to successfully manage their political, policy, business development, and technology agendas.

Donnie's campaign life has carried him to fifteen states since 1987, including work on the presidential campaigns of Dick Gephardt, Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Wesley Clark. He worked as Al Gore's National Field Director in 2000 and, most recently, as General Wesley Clark's first campaign manger.

Fowler has spent much of his non-campaign life in high-tech and telecommunications, working as a Clinton presidential appointee to the Federal Elections Commission and, most recently, as Vice President of TechNet, a national policy and political network of information technology and biotechnology CEOs and senior executives. To this day, he continues his work in both the political and technology arenas.

A South Carolina native, Donnie earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia and his law degree from the University of South Carolina, which he attended on a full scholarship.