Meryl Comer is an Emmy-award winning reporter, producer, moderator, and talk show host with more than 30 years of experience in broadcast journalism. Winner of the 2005 Shriver “Profiles in Dignity” and 2007 Proxmire Award, Comer heads up the Geoffrey Beene Alzheimer’s Initiative, focused on early diagnostics, genetics, biomarker research, and public awareness. Her forthcoming book “Slow Dancing with a Stranger” will benefit Alzheimer’s research. A provocative speaker and moderator, Comer addresses current issues surrounding politics, business, leadership, the economy, and healthcare.

A business and broadcasting pioneer. Comer was among the first women broadcasters to specialize in business news as it relates to public policy. For eighteen years Comer wrote and moderated It’s Your Business, a nationally syndicated debate program on economic, business, and political issues that aired weekly on 140 network affiliates and independent stations. She also co-anchored Nation’s Business Today for six years on ESPN.

Comer hosted the daily talk show Good Day! on WCVB-TV, the ABC affiliate in Boston. Prior to that, she was producer and host for the popular interview show 2’s Company on WMAR-TV, the CBS affiliate station in Baltimore. She also co-anchored the Ten O’ Clock News for WTTG television, served as co-host of Metromedia’s daily 3-hour talk show, Panorama, and worked as associate feature editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Merging management with communication. Parallel to her broadcast responsibilities, Comer served for 11 years as VP for Communications Development at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In that position, Comer managed the U.S. Chamber’s first major institutional advertising campaign, designed and produced a long-running business-education television series with BellSouth and Junior Achievement, served as executive producer and moderator of QLS management training satellite seminars, developed broadcast partnerships and joint ventures, and moderated numerous satellite Town Hall political specials.

Prior to joining the broadcast division of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce full-time in 1983, Comer was VP of broadcast for the Washington public relations firm Gray and Company, now Hill & Knowlton. In 1981, she worked as the network press liaison for the Reagan-Bush Inaugural Committee.