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Omarosa Manigault Stallworth

Omarosa Manigault Stallworth currently serves as a Managing Partner for Access America Enterprise Corporation, a strategic fund raising, planning, and consulting service that combines first hand knowledge of government operations with a full service approach to custom business solutions.

She previously served as Deputy Associate Director of Presidential Personnel at the White House. In this capacity she provided recommendations to President Clinton on senior level candidates for political appointments within a portfolio of nearly 1000 appointments within seven Cabinet departments, 14 Independent Federal Agencies, and 51 boards and commissions.  Additionally, she worked closely with the Congressional Black Caucus and national African-American groups on the recruitment and recommendation of African-American appointees for federal service. Other distinctions include serving as the Senior Scheduling and Advance Coordinator to Vice President Al Gore. During her 13-month appointment in the Vice President’s office Omarosa handled logistics for all aspects of the Vice President hectic schedule.  

In 2002 she was a founding member of the African American Leadership Council, where she worked as a political fund raiser specializing in raising funds in minority communities.  

Omarosa has also had the distinction of serving as the Director of Education and Research for Dr. Bill and Camille Cosby’s non profit historical project. The National Visionary Leadership Program. the National Visionary Leadership Project. Founded by Dr. Bill and Camille Cosby, NVLP is a production company dedicated to creating documentaries based on the lives of elders such as Coretta Scott King, Dr. Dorothy Height, and Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

Prior to both her political and academic careers Mrs. Stallworth has worked as a broadcast journalist covering such events as the Olympics (summer ’96), the Democratic and Republican Conventions (fall ’96), the Inauguration (January 1997) and the 2000 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. She has worked as a freelancer in the newsroom of CNN, Washington Bureau. Recently, she has served as a correspondent for NBC.com, Extra, and the TV Guide Channel. She has also appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show, Regis and Kelly, Hard Ball with Christ Mathews, Larry King Live, Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and The View.

Omarosa’s greatest passion is her work with at-risk youth and homelessness. She dedicates most of free time to community service. She has work on behalf of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School, (DC), the Positive Vibrations program in Compton, CA and the Fred Jordan Mission, CA. She has recently become a goodwill ambassador for the UN World Food Program and has traveled to Africa, Haiti and Guyana. 

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Howard University, Washington, DC

Doctor of Philosophy, ABD 2005

Master of Arts, 1997

Central State University, Ohio

Bachelor of Arts, 1996