Michelle Marshall

Taylor Marsh (born 1954), the pseudonym for Michelle Marshall, is an author, political analyst, writer and strategist, as well as founder and publisher of the new media blog TaylorMarsh.com. Marsh lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband. Marsh is best known for being a die hard Clintonite, as the Washington Post described her in a 2008 profile, For Clinton, A Following Of Marshans. However, Marsh started out skeptical of Hillary Clinton, as the National Journals Hotline OnCall revealed early in 2007. TaylorMarsh.com became a central hub for Hillary supporters during the 2008 primary election cycle. Its part of the reason why The New Republic profile of her in 2008, The Hugh Hefner of Politics, chronicled Marshs professional career. Shes a contributor to The Huffington Post, as well as other new media sites, reporting from the 2008 Democratic Convention for Pajamas Media, covering SEIU events, and the AFSCME Democratic debate during 2007, and has written for many other new media sites.Taylor Marsh was born in Columbia, Missouri, but spent most of her life growing up in St. Louis, raised by her mother after her father died. She came of age during the modern feminist movement, which imprinted politics in her persona. Gloria Steinem, the woman who impressed Marsh as the spokeswoman for the womens liberation movement, represented a new breed of smart, beautiful women who wanted more than what was possible for their mothers and were determined to make it happen.Taylor competed in the beauty pageant scene to pay for college, starting with Miss Teenage St. Louis and earning the title of Miss Friendship in the Miss Teenage America Pageant. Years later, she was crowned Miss Missouri, of 1974 going to the Miss America 1975 pageant. NOW picketed the year she was in the pageant, confronting Marsh one day in front of reporters as she came out of her hotel. One angry National Organization for Women supporter got in her face and asked: How can you demean yourself like this? Marsh simply replied: You want to pay for my college tuition?Marsh went to Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, a liberal arts school, on scholarship, where she performed in the modern dance troupe and as lead dancer in productions, as well as the drama departments Sweet Charity, in the lead role of Charity. Marsh graduated with a B.F.A. in three and one-half years.

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