Kirsten Powers Biography
Kirsten Powers is a political commentator, columnist, and author from the United States. She is currently a contributing writer for USA Today and a CNN political analyst, appearing regularly on Anderson Cooper 360°, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, and The Lead with Jake Tapper.
Kirsten Powers Age
Powers is 54 years old as of 2021. She was born Kirsten Anne Powers on 14 December 1967 in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States.
Kirsten Powers Height
Powers stands at a height of 6 feet (1.83 m).
Kirsten Powers Family
When Powers was three years old, she and her family relocated to Fairbanks, Alaska. Her parents were both archaeologists with Irish ancestry. “Every night during dinner, I was required to state and defend my viewpoints on the problems of the day,” she says, which sparked her interest in politics and discussion.
Kirsten Powers Husband
Powers confirmed her engagement to fellow journalist Robert Draper on November 16, 2016.
Kirsten Powers Education
In 1986, she graduated from Monroe Catholic High School in Fairbanks, Alaska, and went on to the University of Maryland, where she studied law for a year and a half.
Kirsten Powers Religion
Powers was raised in the Episcopal Church but was an atheist for much of her early adult life. She became an evangelical Christian in her mid-thirties. Her conversion began when she dated a Christian man who introduced her to the Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and its pastor, Tim Keller, and culminated in an experience on a trip to Taiwan in 2006, where she later wrote she was “converted.” “I awoke in a strange dream-like state that felt like reality. ‘Here I am,’ Jesus replied as he approached me.”Due to her political ideals and previous atheism, she has described her conversion as “a bit of a mind-bender,” and prefers the term “orthodox Christian” to “evangelical” to describe herself, given the cultural baggage associated with the latter term. She has stated that her newfound faith had the greatest impact on her political opinions since she came to “see everyone as God’s child, and that means everyone deserves grace and respect.” Powers was admitted into the Catholic Church on October 10, 2015.
Kirsten Powers Illness
Powers is not sick and has not shown any signs of illness.
Kirsten Powers Political Career
Powers encouraged the Obama administration to remove “Don’t ask, don’t tell” in 2009, claiming that “refusing the service of persons like Lt. Daniel Choi” jeopardized national security. In 2011, Powers chastised Americans for being “naive” about the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power in Egypt. Her fear stemmed in part from the fact that her then-husband was of Coptic descent.
Powers defined her ideal foreign policy in an interview with Bill O’Reilly as one of limited engagement, in which the US refrains from engaging in tense circumstances it may not be able to manage or even understand. Powers slammed Obama’s foreign policy, saying the Nobel Peace Prize should have been returned “a long time ago.” She apologized for being “very critical and condemning” in her social media and press pronouncements.
Kirsten Powers Career
Powers was the deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for public relations during the Clinton administration. She departed to join America Online as vice president of international communications. She became a vice president of the AOL-Time Warner Foundation after AOL merged with Time Warner.
For many years, Powers has worked in Democratic politics in New York State. She worked as a consultant for the New York State Democratic Committee, as the press secretary for Andrew Cuomo’s governor campaign, and as the communications director for C. Virginia Fields’ mayoral campaign. She also worked on the “Vote No on 3” campaign, which defeated New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ballot effort to abolish party primaries by an overwhelming margin.
Powers was also the press secretary for Donnie Fowler’s failed Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair campaign. She has worked as a consultant for a number of non-profits, including Human Rights First and the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW). The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech, released by Regnery Press in 2015, was her first book.
In a July 2017 story for USA Today, Powers slammed CNN for failing to name a contentious Reddit user, asking, “What about the folks he frequently dehumanizes and insults online?” She did, however, endorse CNN’s choice not to identify the user because his safety was deemed to be in jeopardy, she wrote. “People do not have a ‘right’ to be anonymous so they may spew their racist, sexist, homophobic filth,” Powers wrote on Twitter. Powers was chastised and “harassed” on Twitter in January 2019 after she blamed Covington Catholic High School students for “disrespecting an Indigenous elder” during a highly publicized dispute at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2019.
Kirsten Powers Salary
Powers has joined CNN, where she is earning $950,000 per year.
Kirsten Powers Net Worth
Powers has an estimated net worth of $20 Million.
