Toni-Michelle Travis

Board Member: Toni-Michelle Travis 

Toni-Michelle C. Travis is professor emerita of policy and government at George Mason University and a former fellow of Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute. She has taught and conducted research on race and gender politics, as well as urban and Virginia politics.

She is the coauthor of The Meaning of Difference, which examines American constructions of race, gender, social class, and sexual orientation. She has served as a political analyst on Virginia and national politics on C-SPAN, CNN, Fox Morning News, BBC, and the local NBC, ABC, and CBS affiliates. The author of the Almanac of Virginia Politics, an annual review of state politics, she has been a commentator on Kojo Nnamdi’s “The Virginia Politics Hour” on WAMU radio. From 1998-2002, she hosted Capital Region Roundtable, a GMU-TV public affairs show. As a member of the American Political Science Association, she has served as president of the National Capital Area Chapter and the Women’s Caucus.