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Carol Moseley Braun
Executive VP of Good Works International
October 25, 2001

Confirmed November 1999 with a 98-2 Senate vote, Carol Moseley Braun became the first female African American US Ambassador. Being the Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa she also represented the United States at the South Pacific islands of Nuie, Torkelau, Chatham, Stewart and Cook. Her management responsibility was for the offices in Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand and Apia, Samoa. Ambassador Braun has not only served as a US Ambassador and consultant on school construction for the Department of Education, but she was an Illinois Senator from 1992-1998. She served on the Senate Finance Committee, Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee among others.

She sponsored many successful bills such as bills for School Construction, Women's Pension Equity, Low Income Housing Support and Historic Preservation of the Underground Railroad. Senator Braun also co-sponsored such measures as North American Free Trade Agreement, Taxpayer's Bill of Rights and Student Loan Interest Deductibility. Prior to being a United States Ambassador and Senator, Ambassador Braun served as Recorder of Deeds and Registrar of Titles for Cook County, Representative in the Illinois General Assembly, and Assistant United States Attorney for the Department of Justice in the Northern District of Illinois.

She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois, Chicago Campus and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago School of Law. She has received over 200 honors and awards and in 2001, the Carol Moseley Braun Elementary School was opened in Calumet City, Illinois. These days, Ambassador Braun is the Executive Vice President of Good Works International, a global policy and strategy consulting company. She resides in northern Atlanta enjoying many public appearance activities through lectures, policy articles, opinion pieces and radio and television appearances.