Michelle Kaufman (born 1965) is an American

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and columnist for the ''

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in particular. She also covers tennis, Olympic sports and college and professional sports. She previously worked at the ''

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'' and '' St. Petersburg Times''. Kaufman is a graduate of the

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, where she worked for the student newspaper, '' The Miami Hurricane''. She also teaches a sports writing course at the university. In 2005, Kaufman won the Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award, awarded by the Jewish Museum of Florida FIU to Jewish women in Florida who have broken the "

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" in professional fields that are normally dominated by men. Kaufman married ''Miami Herald'' humor columnist

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in 1996, with whom she has a daughter, Sophie, born in 2000.

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Michelle Kaufman's column at ''The Miami Herald''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaufman, Michelle 1965 births Living people American columnists Place of birth missing (living people) Writers from Florida Miami Herald people University of Miami alumni American women columnists American women non-fiction writers 21st-century American women