Jonetta Rose Barras
Resident Analyst and Commentator
WAMU's resident analyst can be heard weekly on
Jonetta is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, with more than twenty years experience reporting and commenting on national and international social, political, and cultural trends. In 2001, Jonetta was rated one of the Top 50 Most Influential Journalists in Washington D.C. by The Washingtonian magazine alongside Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, Maureen Dowd, and Jim Lehrer among others.
Jonetta Rose Barras is a columnist with The Washington DC Examiner. She has been a contributing political editor for The Washington City Paper and an Op-Ed columnist for the Washington Times. Her writings also have appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The New Republic, The American Enterprise, and The New Democrat among others. She has appeared as an analyst on CBS’ 60 Minutes, C-Span, CNN, WHUT-TV (Howard University Television) WRC-TV (an NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C.) PBS (This is America with Dennis Wholey) and FOX (The O'Reilly Factor).
Jonetta Rose Barras is also the author of Whatever Happened To Daddy's Little Girl: The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women (One World/Ballantine, 2000) and The Last of the Black Emperors: The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in the New Age of Black Leaders (Bancroft Press, 1998). Often considered one of the freshest voices speaking for black America, Jonetta is a highly sought-after speaker who has given talks throughout the US and France.
Jonetta Rose Barras is a graduate of Trinity College in Washington, DC. She resides in the District of Columbia, although she continues to call New Orleans home.
