Mayhill Fowler

Mayhill Fowler

Freelancer at The Commercial Appeal

TED Attendee
Oakland, California, United States
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About Mayhill

I am a…

Blogger, Change agent, Christian, Journalist, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Bio

"Born into a poor branch of a very wealthy family among the old Southern aristocracy, growing up in rural Tennessee and small-town Iowa, educated in the Ivy League and at Berkeley during the hey day of the Vietnam War protests, I lived among the multi-cultural multi-ethnic worlds within worlds of upper middle class professional, largely liberal and secular San Francisco but was most at home as a conservatively and religiously-inclined homebody among African-Americans in Oakland." [NOTES FROM A CLUELESS JOURNALIST: MEDIA, BIAS AND THE GREAT ELECTION OF 2008, excerpt]

I'm passionate about

American politics, foreign policy, Middle East politics and Islam

An idea worth spreading

My daughters' generation, who are the most-travelled among the world's educated elites since fourth century Rome, are first and foremost globalists and therefore are struggling to re-define what it means to be "born American." Their willingness to accommodate and compromise and try on different points of view is the flexibility that America needs as we adapt to a new and different twenty-first century role in world affairs.

Areas of expertise

American History and Politics, American Politics, Media (New & Traditional), Military & Veterans Policy

The TED story

Yet to be determined!

Things you might not know

French hand sewing and embroidery, cooking & entertaining, photography