Cynthia Tucker

Pulitzer Prize winner Cynthia Tucker is a Washington, D.C.-based political writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a nationally syndicated columnist whose commentary appears in more than 70 media outlets throughout the country. Her weekly column, "As I See It," is syndicated by Universal Uclick and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and 2006 before winning the prestigious honor in 2007.

Before moving to Washington, Tucker served as the editorial page editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 18 years, where she was the first black woman to oversee the editorial content of a major American daily newspaper. In that capacity she oversaw the development of that paper's opinion policies on issues ranging from foreign policy and national politics to crime, education and local government. As a reporter early in her career, Tucker filed dispatches from Africa, Central America and the Caribbean. She is now a frequent television commentator, as well as a respected public speaker on a number of contemporary topics.

Tucker graduated from Auburn University in 1976 and was a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University in the 1988-89 academic year. Among her numerous journalistic achievements, she was the recipient of the National Women's Political Caucus' Exceptional Merit Media Award in 1993, won the American Society of Newspaper Editor's Distinguished Writing Award in 2000 and received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Maine's Colby College in 2005. In 2006, Tucker was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.

"Given President Obama's audacious domestic agenda, I can't think of a more exciting time to be writing commentary from the nation's capital," Tucker said of her move to Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2009. "No matter what this administration does, this will be a time of transformative change in the economy and perhaps in foreign policy, as well. I won't lack for interesting column subjects."