Pam McDonald is an artistic and cultural professional who has worked with a number of museums, cultural institutions and entertainment venues. She has often been described as a “connector”, and in her role as Principal for the firm Cultural Cross Currents, her personal and professional career is dedicated to making the world a better place and promoting positive change, by bringing diverse people together through culture and the arts. She has been active with the Obama for America campaign since 2007, having attended Honolulu’s Punahou Academy in the same era with Barack Obama. She has degrees in Linguistics from Pomona College and Georgetown University. She is a wife and the mother of a 22-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son, a soccer and band mother who lives in Oakland, California.

Blog Entries by Pamela Mays McDonald

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

16 Comments | Posted November 3, 2008 | 10:29 AM (EST)



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

37 Comments | Posted October 31, 2008 | 05:06 PM (EST)


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

2 Comments | Posted October 24, 2008 | 12:54 PM (EST)


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

8 Comments | Posted October 15, 2008 | 04:56 PM (EST)


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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