Pamela Mays McDonald
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Pam McDonald is an award-winning artistic and cultural consultant, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, who has worked with creative individuals and organizations around the world. Her personal and professional career has been dedicated to promoting positive change by bringing people together through culture and the arts.

Pamela is an avid student of trends and social change. Her commentaries and reports have been published and broadcast in a variety of media venues worldwide.

Among other professional roles, she was a Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology, International Computer Science Institute; Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning online media portal OaklandSeen.com; and Deputy Field Organizer in San Francisco, San Antonio and Miami-Dade County, Florida during the last Presidential campaign. In 2008, she joined the Off The Bus HuffPost blogging team to document the human stories she found on the campaign trail.

As Founder and CEO of Cultural Cross Currents, she connects clients to audiences with strategy, marketing and events using a holistic, research-based approach that is both "high-tech" and "high touch." Ghostwriting and editing are a specialty.

Blog Entries by Pamela Mays McDonald

'Your Money Or Your Life': Cancer Patient Races Against Health Insurance Cap

1 Comments | Posted March 28, 2012 | 2:29 PM

A 38-year-old Berkeley native named Kenya Wheeler seems to have everything: a positive personality; youthful good looks; a promising career; a loving, smart partner and a diverse group of friends in the Bay Area .

Kenya is a computer nerd and a policy wonk. He can recite facts, policies and...

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Occupy Oakland Reflects Diversity, Unity, And A Legacy Of Activism

0 Comments | Posted October 11, 2011 | 9:29 PM


Oakland, California, 10 October 2011---Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza set the stage for this city's entry into the "Occupation" phenomenon that is spreading across the country. Following on the heels of "Occupy San Francisco" and "Occupy San Jose," the Oakland event began Monday under...

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South Florida Early Voting Lines: Cesarean Sections, Nonagenarians and Sam Cooke

0 Comments | Posted November 3, 2008 | 9:29 AM


MIAMI --- (As told to the correspondent by husband-and-wife Obama Volunteers Pierina and Aramis in the Coral Gables office)

The last early voting hours for Miami-Dade County were 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Saturday and 1:00 to 5:00 pm Sunday. "You could feel the hope in the votes,"...

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ANTI-Abortion Protesters Storm South Florida Obama Office

0 Comments | Posted October 31, 2008 | 5:06 PM

Coral Gables, Florida-- A group of approximately fifty anti-abortion protestors, with Spanish-language press in tow, descended upon the Obama for America campaign offices in Coral Gables, Florida yesterday, October 30. Escorted by their activist priest, the group was armed with printed signs depicting aborted fetuses. Their hand-printed signs read, "A...

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Campaign Journal: Camp Obama, GOTV and Phonebanking in Northern California

0 Comments | Posted October 24, 2008 | 12:54 PM

Pamela Mays McDonald is an OffTheBus grassroots correspondent. Each week she contributes a campaign journal documenting her life out on the trail.

The Last "Camp Obama"

OAKLAND, CA---When I first accepted an invitation to serve as a facilitator, I had no idea what to...

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Campaign Journal: Young San Francisco Does Its Part for Obama While Dancing

0 Comments | Posted October 15, 2008 | 4:56 PM

San Francisco is the darkest blue of cities in the bluest state of the red, white and blue United States. It's the least red (and the least white) of cities as well. For two centuries, the "City by the Bay" has attracted the young, the adventurous, the bohemian, the fun-loving,...

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