Joanne Bamberger is an author, journalist, political and media strategist/analyst, and recovering attorney living in the shadow of the nation’s capital. She’s also known around the blogosphere as PunditMom!
Joanne’s is the author of the Amazon bestseller Mothers of Intention: How Women & Social Media are Revolutionizing Politics in America (Bright Sky Press) which explores the rise of women’s political involvement through online and social media tools, giving a peek to the 2012 campaigns about what women are focused on and how best to reach them. Joanne is the publisher/editor-in-chief of The Broad Side, an online magazine featuring the best women’s commentary from around the web.
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.
A new media expert and authority on political involvement of women and mothers, Joanne is the primary election editor/correspondent for iVillage iVote for the 2012 election season and is a columnist at the popular parenting site, Babble. She was a regular contributor to AOL’s Politics Daily/Woman Up, and contributes to POLITICO’s Arena, The Huffington Post, MomsRising and MOMocrats. Her political commentary has appeared on CNN, Fox News, Politics Daily’s Woman Up talk show, Good Morning America, BBC Radio, NPR, Al Jazeera English & XM Radio POTUS, among others. Joanne has done freelance media/political consulting work for a variety of organizations.
Joanne was named by Working Mother Magazine as one of its 2011 Most Powerful Women in Social Media and was nominated for the 2011 Social Media Award by the Women’s Media Center. She is on the leadership committee of the annual Activism+Media+Policy Summit.
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, 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, 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.
E-mail Joanne at joanne@punditmom.com about press availability, speaking & conference appearances, freelance writing and consulting availability or interest in syndicating PunditMom content.
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.
