Jennifer Donahue has been named political director for the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, and will join the Harvard Institute of Politics as a Kennedy School fellow for the fall semester.
Donahue, who was previously the NHIOP senior advisor for political affairs, will lead a study group at Harvard in an examination of the general election campaigns in real time. Students will learn how to analyze a political race by examining the Obama-McCain campaigns and key state races around the country. They will look at polls and media coverage, developing their own analysis of the state of the presidential race and the mood of the electorate.
As NHIOP political director, she will continue her key role at the Institute, analyzing national, state and local races and serving as a resource to the NHIOP, Saint Anselm students and the media. She offers analysis of the presidential and other races for such news outlets as ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC’s Hardball, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, and NPR. She also will moderate panels and help develop programming at the Institute. She teaches the popular “Pizza and Politics” seminar on political news and analysis.
Donahue, who also will serve as the NHIOP manager of civic education, is a graduate of Cornell University. Before joining the NHIOP in 2002, she worked as a journalist for CNN’s “Inside Politics” and C-SPAN.