Draft:Dani Newsum

Dani R. Newsum is a lawyer, educator, historian, columnist, broadcaster, and advocate in Colorado. She has worked for Democratic Party organizations in the state. She is the director of strategic partnerships at Cobalt, an advocacy group for abortion rights. She has also worked for the ACLU and Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Community Center of Colorado.

C-Span has videos of appearances she made on a show and in a debate.

She wroter her thesis on the impact of World War II on civil rights in the United States.

She was a regular panelist on Colorado Inside Out, a current affairs show, and was on debate show Head On for six years. She hosted radio talk show on Denver’s KOA and KHOW stations in the 1990s. She was honored by Westword as Denver’s "Best New Talk Show Host" in 1996. Other honors she has received include the Colorado American Civil Liberties Union’s Media Award in 1998, a "Media Trailblazer" designation by the American Association of University Women, and a Radio Journalist of the Year award from the Colorado Association of Black Journalists in 1996.

August 11, 2004 she called Catholicism "cult of men with terminal cases of arrested sexual and psychosocial development."

She is married and has three children.

Writings

 * Cold War Colorado; Civil Rights Liberals and the Movement for Legislative Equality, 1945-1959 University of Colorado Denver (2012)