Heather McGhee Demos Wiki, Age, Net Worth, Husband, Married, Bio

Personal Details Summary
Name	Heather McGhee Demos
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB	June 6, 1980. As of 2025, she is around 45 years old.
Marital Status / Husband / Marriage / Dating / Boyfriend	Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.
Children / No. of Kids	None
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race	Black
Nationality	American
What is Heather McGhee doing now?	She is the trustee emeritus of Demos, a non-profit progressive American think-tank.

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Heather McGhee is an American political commentator, performance artist, and public figure based in New York.
Passionate, smart and talented, she is dedicated to making the world a better place for underprivileged groups, especially minorities in the United States.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Heather was raised by her parents – Earl J. McGhee (father) and Gail C. Christopher (mother). Her middle name is Charisse.
Her father used to work in Chicago as a Freelance Color Management Specialist before retiring, while her mother serves as a Senior Advisor and Vice President of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which is based in Battle Creek, Michigan. Her parents separated, and her father remarried a woman named Mary Boivin.
She has a brother named Hassan Christopher, who is a theater dancer and artist.

Married Life :

In 2016, Heather got married to Cassim Saud Cauldwell Shepard, whom she first met when she was still in high school. They were friends for the most part and only started to date in 2014.
McGhee and Shepard married at his family house, which is located in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The wedding was officiated by Reverend L. Alton Wasson of the United Methodist Church, and the couple chose to jump over a broom in honor of African slaves. Heather chose to keep her last name.
Her husband is an M.I.T, Kings College London, and Harvard graduate in addition to being a writer and a part-time college professor.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

For her high school education, Heather attended the Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts. She was one of the very few black children in the whole school.
She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in American Studies from Yale before moving on to obtain her Law Degree from U.C. Berkeley in California.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

McGhee currently serves as the president of a New York based organization called “Demos,” which works on addressing and researching social injustice and inequality.
She is a board member of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Consumer Reports, in addition to being part of the Center for Working Families and Global Agenda Council on Civic Participation. Her work is dedicated to improving society and fighting injustices faced by the underprivileged.
McGhee is no stranger to television and makes regular appearances on popular shows like “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and “Meet the Press.”
Her research, written pieces, and opinions have also been featured in publications such as The Hill, The Nation and The New York Times.

Trivia, Awards and Interesting Facts :

McGhee has been awarded Progressive Leadership Award by the Citizen Action of New York. She has also received the Leaders in the Fight Against Poverty McSilver award by NYU.
She has also been named amongst the 50 People You’ll Be Talking About list in 2016 by Grist and the 23 Black Political Pundits You Should Know by ‘The Root’ publication.
In 2002, she adopted the kittens of a rescue cat while in Los Angeles. She initially planned to adopt just one kitten but could not bear the thought of separating them. The kittens are called Nelson and Samwise.

3 thoughts on “Heather McGhee Demos Wiki, Age, Net Worth, Husband, Married, Bio”

R. Barker Oct 9, 2021 at 3:39 am


Heather McGhee is a scripted sellout. Pro systemically socialized! Is she ‘The Miseducation of the Negro’
Emery C Graham Jr Oct 3, 2021 at 4:40 pm


Among the questions, your work raises, the one of most interest to me is why white people find it difficult to admit that whites bear the burden of suffering and despair in America. Given that whites are the vast racial majority group, how is it that they allow the mass media to disguise their plight and suffering with a black face and narrative? Whites have been, and continue to be, the greatest number of people in poverty in America, the group with the highest number of uneducated persons, the least healthy Americans, and the group who has given America the most domestic terrorists.

It seems that the mass media and the Capitalists have found whites to be willing dupes in a grand scheme to enslave the minds of white people.
Dave Sprecher May 2, 2021 at 2:26 am


Heard your interview on C-SPAN. Excellent!