Karen Finney | |
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| Born | August 15, 1967 New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BA) |
Karen Finney (born August 15, [1] 1967) [2] is an American political consultant and spokesperson for the Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. She was a political commentator for MSNBC and hosted the show Disrupt with Karen Finney .
Finney was born in New York to an African-American father who worked as a civil rights lawyer and a white mother who worked as a labor negotiator. Through her mother, she is related to the Confederate Civil War general, Robert E. Lee. [3] As a child, she moved to California with her mother, and attended the University of California, Los Angeles. [4]
Finney served four years as the spokesperson and Director of Communications at the Democratic National Committee. She has also written for The Hill , [5] is a commentator for Politico , [6] MSNBC, and The Huffington Post . [7]
Finney served as Press Secretary for Hillary Clinton in the early 1990s. [8] She then moved into the private sector, working in marketing for the Scholastic Corporation.
In 2001, she managed crisis communications for the New York City Panel for Educational Policy, and worked for Elizabeth Edwards during the John Edwards 2004 presidential campaign.
On April 2, 2013, it was announced that Finney would host a weekend news program called Disrupt with Karen Finney on MSNBC. [9] On June 5, 2014, it was announced that Finney's weekend news program was cancelled. [10]
On November 25, 2014 Finney joined Media Matters for America as a senior fellow and consultant. [11]
On April 6, 2015, CNN announced that she was selected as Strategic Communications Adviser and Senior Spokesperson for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. [12]
On January 6, 2019, she made her debut as a CNN political commentator. [13]
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