MICHELLE KAUFMAN has been a sportswriter for 40 years. She was born in Frederick, Maryland, was raised in Miami, and graduated from the University of Miami in 1987. She’s covered 14 Olympic Games, seven World Cups, numerous Wimbledons, French Opens, U.S. Opens, NCAA Final Fours, Super Bowls, World Series, and NBA Finals. Her work was included in A Kind of Grace, A Treasury of Sportswriting by Women; Real Sports Reporting, a sports journalism textbook; and Nike Is a Goddess: The History of Women’s Sports. Her career began in 1987 at the St. Petersburg Times, where she covered the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and was one of the few women covering the NFL at the time. She spent seven years at the Detroit Free Press before returning home to the Miami Herald in 1996, where she worked for 30 years. She’s been teaching a sports reporting class at the University of Miami for the past 22 years.
In Person
- Nov. 22 - 2:30pm
- 3:30pm
Free