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Speaker Bio
April Ryan has a unique vantage point as the only Black female reporter covering urban issues from the White House, a position she has held since the Clinton era. She can be seen almost daily on CNN as a political analyst. She is also the Washington D.C Bureau Chief on TheGrio. Ryan served on the board of the prestigious White House Correspondents Association, one of only three African Americans in the association’s more than100-year history to do so. She is also a member of the National Press Club. Ryan is the recipient of the 2016 National Council of Negro Women Mary McCloud Bethune Trailblazer Award and was recognized as the 2019 Freedom of the Press Award Winner by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Ryan is a Baltimore native and Morgan State University graduate. She is the author of the award-winning books The Presidency in Black and White and At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White.