In 2020,Skinner appointed Richard Grenell to a position at Carnegie Mellon University. This appointment was condemned in letters signed by faculty,staff,and students.[8][9] In February 2021,Skinner stepped down as director of Carnegie Mellon's Institute for Politics and Strategy,which she founded.[10]
Political career
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo officiates the Swearing-In Ceremony for Dr. Kiron Skinner as Director of Policy Planning,September 2018.
In 2010,she was appointed to the advisory board of the George W. Bush Oral History Project.[11] She was a senior foreign policy adviser to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich during his presidential primary campaign from 2011 to 2012 and then to Mitt Romney's presidential general election campaign in the fall of 2012.[12] In 2012,Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett appointed Skinner to the Governor's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs.[11]
Trump administration
In 2016,Skinner served on President-elect Donald Trump's transition team for national security.[13] She had a position as a senior advisor for the State Department but left the role after a few days.[14] In August 2018,Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced her as the new Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department,[15] and she was sworn in on September 4,2018. She was given a coordinating role on the newly formed Commission on Unalienable Rights,whose creation was announced July 8,2019.
Skinner drew international attention in April 2019 for stating at a foreign policy forum that the U.S. competition with China would be especially bitter,because unlike the Cold War with the Soviet Union which is "a fight within the Western family",“it’s the first time that we will have a great-power competitor that is not Caucasian".[16][17] Some critics viewed these remarks as a new version of Samuel P. Huntington's clash of civilizations thesis or as bordering on racism.[18]
Skinner's term at the State Department ended in August 2019.[19]
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