Flavia Colgan

Flavia Colgan is a political commentator and news correspondent who has appeared regularly on The O'Reilly Factor, The Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live. She has been an active contributor on MSNBC, CBS Early Show, Extra, Travel Channel and FOX News. In addition Colgan has co-hosted and appeared on numerous national and local radio talk shows including NPR's "The Point", the Alan Colmes Show, the Sirius Satellite show Young Turks, and The Michael Smerconish Morning Show. Colgan has traveled extensively across the United States and abroad to report on and investigate a wide range of topics and to interview a diverse group of news makers, personalities and ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Her interviews have included Al Gore, Walter Cronkite and Prince Albert of Monaco. Colgan is an associate editor for the Philadelphia Daily News and has served on the paper's editorial board. She has contributed to the Huffington Post, the Harrisburg Patriot-News, Politics PA, and the Allentown Morning Call. In addition to her media achievements, Colgan was a political consultant who served as campaign manager for both David Wecht for Pennsylvania's Superior Court, and Catherine Baker Knoll for state treasurer. She was the first ever woman and youngest Chief of Staff for Catherine Baker Knoll when she served as Pennsylvania's Lt. Governor. Colgan also served on Governor Ed Rendell's Senior Staff. In 2007, she was the host/producer of Travel Channel's Miracle Quest; it won a Telly Award for best opening sequence. She is now serving as a producer for "Cost of Construction" a documentary about the failure of corporations and government agencies to keep American workers alive and safe. The film is receiving strong early press coverage.