Paris Dennard

Between 2005 and 2009, Dennard worked for U.S. President George W. Bush, including at the Office of Legislative Affairs, the Office of Political Affairs, and the Office of Public Liaison. During that time, he served as White House Director of Black Outreach; coordinated the meetings and travels of the President, First Lady Laura Bush, and the House of Representatives; and planned various events in the White House. Between 2009 and 2011, Dennard worked at the Republican National Committee as an Associate Director for Coalitions.

In 2018, President Donald J. Trump appointed Dennard to serve as a commissioner on the President's Commission on White House Fellowships.[9]

Dennard is also a consultant through his own firm on strategic communication, political management, image and brand development, and media training issues, and is the Senior Director of Strategic Communications for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.[10] 

Dennard is a member of the American Enterprise Institute's Leadership Network.[11] Dennard serves on the Advisory Board for Black Voices for Trump[12] for the 2020 re-election campaign for Donald J. Trump.

Dennard has been a political TV commentator on C-SPAN, BBC, OANN, Newsmax TV, Hill TV, and TV One where he was a regular on NewsOne Now with Roland S. Martin, BET's State of the Union coverage, MSNBC, and was a paid political commentator with CNN[13] from 2016-2018 and NPR's Here and Now. Dennard also writes opinion articles that have appeared in the Daily Caller and The Hill on a host of topics.[14] On August 22, 2018, The Washington Post reported that, according to documents and a university official, Dennard had been fired in 2015 from his position as an events director for Arizona State University's McCain Institute for International Leadership for allegedly In one instance, telling a subordinate that he wanted to have sex with her and "pretended to unzip his pants in her presence, tried to get her to sit on his lap, and made masturbatory gestures," according to the Post. The report also included an allegation that Dennard once touched a female employee's "neck with his tongue" and came up behind her at a work event and "whispered in her ear that he wanted to ‘f---’ her," the Post reported. The Washington Post claims the report states that Dennard did not dispute those claims but said he committed the acts jokingly.[15] Following the publication of the Washington Post's report, CNN and Boston NPR member station WBUR-FM announced they had suspended Dennard with pay pending further investigation.[16][17] President Trump publicly praised Dennard during his Black History Month listening session at the White House for his work as a political commentator,[18] and singled him out several times in his remarks during the Black Voices for Trump[19] launch in Atlanta, GA.