MOAD TALKS with Sports Journalist Michelle Kaufman

Join Amy Galpin, Executive Director of the Museum of Art and Design, for a lively conversation with Miami icon Michelle Kaufman.

A longtime writer for the Miami Herald, Michelle Kaufman has covered seven World Cups. The evening will include stories of past World Cups, insight into the changing field of sports journalism, and behind the scenes tales of interviews with leading athletes, including Inter Miami’s own Leo Messi.

Michelle Kaufman has been a sportswriter for 40 years. She was born in Frederick, Md., raised in Miami and graduated from the University of Miami in 1987.

She has covered 14 Olympics, seven World Cups, numerous Wimbledons, French Opens, US Opens, NCAA Final Fours, Super Bowls, World Series, and NBA Finals. Her assignments have taken her to South Africa, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China, Russia, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Norway, Greece, Italy, France, England, Germany, Canada, and Spain.

Her career began in 1987 at the St. Petersburg Times, where she covered the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and was one of the only women covering the NFL at that time.

From there she went to the Detroit Free Press, where she spent seven years before returning home to the Miami Herald in 1996.

She has been teaching a Sports Reporting class at the University of Miami for 21 years.

Among the writing awards Kaufman has won: Associated Press Sports Editors Second Place Beat Reporting 2023; Top 10 Enterprise/Project Reporting (2021), National Headliner Award (2^nd place, 2007 and 3^rd place, 1999), Florida Sportswriter of the Year (2015), Associated Press Sports Editors (3rd place 2008, 4th place, 1987 and 5th place 1994, Top 10 2000 and 2001), Michigan AP awards (1st place, 1994), Florida Sports Writers Assn (2nd place 1988, 3rd place 1998)

Other Awards/Honors: Jewish Museum of Florida Glass Ceiling Award, University of Miami School of Communications Communicator of the Year

Kaufman's work was published in A Kind of Grace, A Treasury of Sportswriting by Women; Real Sports Reporting -- a sports journalism textbook; and Nike is a Goddess: History of Women's Sports. She is married to humorist/author Dave Barry.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Event attendees may park for free in the MDC garage at 500 NE Second Avenue, between NE Fifth and NE Sixth Streets.

The Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at MDC may document the event, including its attendees. By entering the area, and/or participating in the event, you consent to the recording and its use in any form.

MOAD's programs are made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor, and the Board of County Commissioners. They are sponsored in part by the State of Florida Division of Arts and Culture, with support from Art Bridges, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The programs at the Freedom Tower, operated by the Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at Miami Dade College (MDC), are made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor, and the Board of County Commissioners. They are sponsored by the State of Florida Division of Arts and Culture, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), with collections, exhibition, education and marketing support provided by Art Bridges, ArtesMiami, the Shepard Broad Foundation, the Miami Downtown Development Authority (Miami DDA), Henry Luce Foundation, Jay I. Kislak Foundation, Mitchell Wolfson Sr. Foundation, and US Century Bank.