Kristen Soltis Anderson
| Kristen Soltis Anderson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Kristen Lynne Soltis February 22, 1984 Orlando, Florida, United States |
| Education |
M.A. Johns Hopkins University B.A. University of Florida |
| Occupation | Pollster, writer, television personality |
| Employer | Partner and Co-Founder at Echelon Insights |
| Spouse(s) | Chris Anderson (m. 2012) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website |
kristensoltisanderson |
Kristen Lynne Soltis Anderson is a Republican pollster, television personality, and writer. She has written for The Daily Beast,[1] Politico[2] and The Huffington Post.[3]
In 2013 Time magazine named Anderson one of the 30 People Under 30 who are changing the world.[4] Marie Claire magazine declared Anderson one of the "New Guard" of fifty rising female leaders.[5]
Early life and education
Born February 22, 1984,[6] Anderson grew up in Orlando, Florida.[7] She graduated from the University of Florida with a B.A. in political science in 2005; she later obtained her M.A. in government from The Johns Hopkins University in 2009.[7] As a junior in college, she interned with the finance department of the National Republican Congressional Committee[7] and was appointed by Florida Governor Jeb Bush to the Florida Commemorative Quarter Committee.[8] As a senior, she interned at the Washington DC-based opinion research and political communications firm, The Winston Group.[7]
Career
After graduation in 2005, she accepted a full-time position with The Winston Group where she focused on the youth vote and education reform.[7][8] After earning her graduate degree in 2009, she began publishing pieces of her thesis as articles on Pollster.com and the The Next Right, a conservative blog dedicated to developing young conservatives who could help rebuild the Republican Party.[7] In 2010, her findings were mentioned by James Carville, a prominent Democrat political strategist and commentator. That led to various news programs and journalists asking for her insights; she started appearing on television news shows as a guest commentator.[7] She subsequently received $1 million from a Republican super PAC to research the youth vote and served as its Communications Director while still working with the Winston Group;[7] she began to appear as a political pundit on various news programs including CNN's State of the Union, Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor, CNN's Piers Morgan, and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.[7][8]
During the 2012 elections, she was a communications adviser to Crossroads Generation, a Republican organization focused on the youth vote.[8] After GOP candidate Mitt Romney lost the 2012 youth vote by 23 points, she helped develop a 90-page guidebook about how the Republican Party might get more votes from young people.[7] In 2014, she left The Winston Group and, with Patrick Ruffini (the co-founder of The Next Right blog), founded Echelon Insights.[8] Echelon conducts issue-oriented research for news organizations and other groups.[8] In 2015, her book,The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials are Leading America (and How Republicans Can Keep Up), was released.[7]
Anderson has also cohosted two live media blogs: "The Week In Blog" program for Bloggingheads.tv and Variety's "Wilshire and Washington" weekly podcast.[8] She was the primary author of Grand Old Party for a Brand New Generation, a book that analyzed the youth vote and proposed ways for the Republican Party to recapture it.[8] She also served as an issue-advocacy adviser to the YG Network in support of its efforts to develop conservative women activists.[8]
Personal life
After dating for five years, Kristen and Chris Anderson got married on April 28, 2012.[9] They live in Washington, D.C. with their son, Oscar.
References
- ↑ The Daily Beast
- ↑ Politico
- ↑ The Huffington Post
- ↑ Time
- ↑ Marie Claire
- ↑
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Cosmopolitan Magazine: "Get That Life: How I Became The Republican Party's Leading Millennial Pollster – Kristen Soltis Anderson turned her graduate thesis into a career as an expert on young voters" by HEATHER WOOD RUDULPH June 6, 2016
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The Institute of Politics at Harvard University: "Kristen Soltis Anderson" Fall 2014
- ↑ Kristen Soltis Anderson's Married Life With Husband Is A Beauty To Eyes; Shared A Rare Picture From Wedding Day