Meg Kinnard
| Meg Kinnard | |
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| Born | Meghan Elisabeth Kinnard May 18, 1980 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👔 Employer | The Associated Press |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Geoffrey Hardee |
| 👪 Relatives | Ed Jones (U.S. politician) |
| 🌐 Website | www.megkinnard.com |
| Twitter= | |
Meghan Kinnard Hardee (born Meghan Elisabeth Kinnard; May 18, 1980) is an American journalist who works as a political and legal affairs reporter for The Associated Press.[1][2]
Early Life and Education[edit]
She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the only child of physicians Michael Kinnard, M.D., a cardiologist, and Jennifer Jones Kinnard, M.D., a nephrologist.[3]
She graduated from St. Mary's Episcopal School, a private college preparatory school for girls. Meg attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., graduating with a BSFS in international politics, with a concentration in international security studies.[4]
Kinnard is the only grandchild of Rep. Ed Jones, a 10-term former U.S. Congressman and Tennessee Commissioner of Agriculture from Yorkville, Tennessee. She spent her childhood summers on her grandparents’ farm in Yorkville, and when the congressman retired in 1989, he cited spending more time with her as his motivating factor.[5][6]
Career[edit]
Raised in a Democratic political family, she interned for the Tennessee Republican Party in high school and later served as a House Page for Democratic U.S. Congressman John S. Tanner. She interned for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee for Government Reform and was simultaneously a College Republican and a College Democrat while attending Georgetown. Her intention was to work for the CIA, but after taking a journalism elective class at Georgetown, and interning for The Washington Post, she decided to become a journalist, instead. Upon graduation, she worked as an assistant online editor at National Journal for 3 years before taking a job with The Associated Press, where she has remained since October 2005, based in South Carolina.[4]
In the media[edit]
Kinnard’s news stories have appeared internationally in over 600 publications and newspapers.[7] She is a frequent contributor on TV One’s News One Now with Roland Martin, discussing race-related issues in South Carolina, such as the Charleston church shooting and Michael Slager cases.[8]
Kinnard has appeared on NPR’s The Takeaway, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, and on The Blaze’s Doc Thompson Show.[9]
Philanthropy[edit]
Kinnard and her husband Geoffrey Hardee are contributors to philanthropic causes. In 2016, the Hardees, along with her mother, and former U.S. Congressman John S. Tanner and his wife, Betty Ann, gave a gift to the Paul Meek Library Special Collections at The University of Tennessee at Martin - the alma mater of her grandparents, Ed and Llew Jones, to establish the 8th District Legacy Fund, a project to digitize the congressional papers of her grandfather, Tanner, and other congressmen who leave their papers to the university.[10]
Grassroots Politickin’[edit]
In 2016, Kinnard announced that she and her husband would co-author her grandfather’s political biography, published by The University of Tennessee Press. Proceeds from the book, entitled Grassroots Politickin’ - The Life and Legacy of Ed Jones, will be used to support the Ed and Llew Jones Legacy Fund at The University of Tennessee at Martin.[11]
Personal life[edit]
She is married to Geoffrey Hardee, a public relations executive in Columbia, South Carolina. She has a daughter from a previous marriage, and her husband has a son and a daughter. They live with their children, near Columbia.[12]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Counting the votes:How the electors pick the president". AP. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
- ↑ "Trump's neo-Nazi rally comments thrust GOP doubts into open". WTOP. 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
- ↑ "KinnardObituary". 2015-03-01.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "MegKinnard.com". 2017-08-25.
- ↑ A dying breed: Southern gent steps down from Capitol Hill", The Jackson Sun, 1988-02-14.
- ↑ "UT Martin | UT Martin to preserve legacy of Congressman Ed Jones, 8th Congressional District". Retrieved 2017-08-24.
- ↑ "Kinnard Verified Public Muckrack Profile". 2017-08-25.
- ↑ "The Latest On Alton Sterling, Walter Scott & Jordan Edwards". WOL-AM 1450. 2017-05-03. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
- ↑ "Listen to the The Takeaway Hour Episode - Obama's Farewell, Russian Secrets and Trump, Military Brutality on iHeartRadio". iHeartRadio. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
- ↑ "UT Martin | UT Martin to preserve legacy of Congressman Ed Jones, 8th Congressional District". Retrieved 2017-08-24.
- ↑ "UT Martin | UT Martin to preserve legacy of Congressman Ed Jones, 8th Congressional District". Retrieved 2017-08-24.
- ↑ FITSNews. "Meg Kinnard: Print Is Not Dead". Retrieved 2017-08-25.
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