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Brenda Jones worked on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC for 15 years as the speechwriter and communications director for an icon of American politics, Rep. John Lewis. Nearly all of Lewis's published opinions, statements and speeches, ranging from his introductions of Presidents of the United States, to commencement addresses delivered to the Ivy League, to statements made on the House floor as well as those that celebrate his transformative civil rights legacy have been penned by Brenda Jones. She collaborated with Rep. Lewis on Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America, a distillation of his philosophy of life, which won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography, and the audiobook was nominated for an Emmy Award. She was named one of the 20 Most Powerful Women Staffers on Capitol Hill by National Journal magazine, and is a winner of the Theodore C. Sorenson Speechwriting Award. She has degrees from Indiana University/Bloomington, Columbia University, and the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. She is a native of Washington, DC.
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