234 - Living with Integrity with Brenda Jones
234 - Living with Integrity with Brenda Jones
Listeners, we are back this week with Brenda Jones
Brenda Jones is an award-winning political communicator, speechwriter and author who worked in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC for nearly 16 years. There she served as communications director, primary speechwriter and national media relations manager for an American icon, Rep. John Lewis. In 2015, she was named “One of the 20 Most Powerful Women Staffers on Capitol Hill” by National Journal magazine. In 2012, she won an NAACP Image Award for her collaboration with Lewis on Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change. And in 2010, she won the Theodore C. Sorenson Speechwriting Award. She is the founder and CEO of The John Lewis Institute of Peace, an American domestic peace organization. She holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Gertrude Manning Fellow, an MA in Journalism from the Alfred Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University, and a BA in Journalism from Indiana University.
During this episode we talked about:
Her dad who was next to her during our conversation
Her work with John Lewis
How Brenda and her co-author Krishan decided to write her book
Integrity and leadership
Education
It was a warm, delicious conversation like a perfectly brewed cup of coffee
Relevant Timestamps:
05:29 - Her dad and her childhood home
11:02 - Growing up in Washington DC
14:14 - The importance of voting
16:40 - Use our power
20:08 - How revolutionary being educated is
22:45 - Valid sources of information
26:31 - Influence & money
30:23 - Money & principle
39:34 - Her books
41:21 - Women candidates and power
44:44 - Co-writing
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