Michele Jawando

Michele Lawrence Jawando is an American nonprofit executive who is the CEO of the Omidyar Network. She has previously worked as a podcaster, a co-host on SiriusXM, on Google's Public Policy, and at the Center for American Progress.

Life She was born in New York and her mother was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Her great-aunt was Lois Browne-Evans, Bermuda's first woman black lawyer (who was knighted). Jawando spent a lot of time in Bermuda as she and her family would move there sometimes. She graduated from Hampton University in Virginia and she gained her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. Center for American Progress (CAP) when she co-hosted their podcast Thinking CAP before she joined Google.

Media She has been a co-host of SiriusXM, as well as a podcaster.

Jawando has been brought in as an expert to give her insight into American politics where she volunteered that the (then) President Donald Trump was not telling the truth.

In 2020, she was one of ten people to receive the Caribbean American Heritage Award because of her Caribbean heritage and for her outstanding contributions to corporate America.

As of January 2023, Jawando was senior vice president for programs of the Omidyar Network.

Personal life

Jawando first met her husband, Will Jawando, in 2004 at the Chi-Cha Lounge in Washington, D.C. They were engaged nine months later. Together, they have four children and live in Sandy Spring, Maryland.