Jennifer Granholm - Post-gubernatorial Career

Post-gubernatorial Career

Governor Granholm is a Distinguished Practitioner of Law and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. In autumn 2011, she taught a graduate course entitled "Governing in Tough Times". As a senior advisor to The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Clean Energy Program, Granholm leads a campaign for a national clean energy policy that promotes and funds research and manufacturing for wind, solar, and advanced battery industries in the United States. She is a regular contributor to NBC’s political talk show Meet the Press. She has authored a book, A Governor's Story: The Fight For Jobs and America's Economic Future (Release Date: September 20, 2011), with her husband on the lessons Michigan’s experience can offer to America and serves on the board of directors of the Dow Chemical Company. On October 12, 2011, Current TV announced that Granholm would be joining its new political primetime lineup as host of the new program The War Room with Jennifer Granholm.

She "became a household name" after delivering what has been described as a "hyperactive" and "sharp-tongued" speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 6. Granholm's speech centered around the automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010; specifically, President Obama's decision to bail out General Motors and Chrysler, its beneficial effects on the U.S. economy, and Mitt Romney's opposition to the bailout.