Ponchitta Pierce

Ponchitta Pierce

"A journalist with extensive experience as a television host, producer and magazine writer. She worked at CBS Television, WNBC-TV New York and hosted programs for WNET Channel 13 (PBS). In addition to her work in television, Ms. Pierce writes on subjects ranging from politics and health to finance and social policy. She has served as a Contributing Editor for Parade magazine and McCall's magazine and Roving Editor for Reader's Digest and has written for many national publications including AARP The Magazine (Modern Maturity); Family Circle, More, Newsday, and Ladies Home Journal. Several of her interviews appear in My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience (AARP/Sterling Publishing), a book that presents eyewitness accounts from people who played pivotal roles in the civil rights movement. She serves on the boards of several nonprofits, the Foreign Policy Association, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.“

Director of the Women's Foreign Policy Group.
 * Advisory Board, USC Center on Public Diplomacy