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Joanne Bamberger is a political and media strategist/analyst, author, and recovering attorney living in the shadow of the nation's capital. She's also known around the blogosphere as PunditMom!
PunditMom blog is the home of op-ed commentary by Joanne, who is also a freelance writer and former op-ed columnist for The Washington Examiner. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including The Washington Post, Arrive Magazine, Legal Times, Washingtonian Magazine, and many others. She is the co-founder of The DC Moms blog, as well as the forthcoming blog, The Broad Side: Real Women. Real Opinions. Real Politics.
A new media expert and authority on political involvement of women and mothers, Joanne is a regular contributor to AOL's Politics Daily/Woman Up, The Huffington Post, MomsRising and MOMocrats. Her political commentary has appeared on CNN, Fox News, Politics Daily's Woman Up Sunday talk show, ABC.com, BBC Radio, NPR, Al Jazeera English & XM Radio POTUS '08, among others. Joanne has done freelance media/political consulting work for a variety of organizations including MomsRising, WomenOnline and Turner Strategies and recently joined the Netroots Nation Advisors Committee for the annual Netroots Nation conference.
Joanne speaks frequently at conferences and to private groups about the growing influence of women/mothers in politics and social media. She has presented and participated in panels at Netroots Nation '09 (Building a Conversation Across Generations of Progressive Women), the Feminist Majority Foundation, EMILY's List, BlogHer '08, Fem 2.0 (panels on motherhood as a political motivator and using social media in a political world), Mom 2.0 Summit (The Macro Impact of Social Media Engagement), Type-A Mom Conference (panel on moving beyond the blog), WAM! 2009, the Women's Media Center, Yahoo!'s Motherboard Summit, Netroots Nation '10 (Why Progressive Women are the Key to Future Progressive Election Victories), BlogHer '10 (Radical Blogging: You'd Be Crazy Not to Take These Women Seriously), Activism, Media & Politics Summit (Engaging Women & Moms), and Blogalicious '10 (Blogging the Issues). Joanne is a former contributing editor for News & Politics at BlogHer.
Joanne was in the inaugural fellows class of the Progressive Women's Voices program at the Women's Media Center. Joanne's work is also featured in the books Kirtsy Takes a Bow: A Celebration of Women's Online Favorites and Courageous Parents, Confident Kids. Joanne was honored to be selected as a finalist in the BlogHer '10 Voices of the Year competition.
Joanne is an award-winning broadcast journalist who spent a decade as a radio and television reporter before attending law school. Joanne spent 15 years in private and government practice, including a stint as Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Joanne claims to have time for other things, but has given up sleep.
