Kirsten Powers Bio (Wiki)

Who is Kirsten Powers?

Kirsten Powers is an American Columnist, Author, and Political Analyst. She currently writes for US Today and is a political analyst for CNN.

Kirsten Powers: Birth Facts, Family, and Childhood

She was born on December 14, 1987, in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. Her ethnicity is a mix of Irish-American.

When she was three years old, she moved with her family to Fairbanks, Alaska. Her parents were Archeologists. Her father is now a former member of the NRA and her brother is a teacher.

Kirsten Powers graduated from Monroe Catholic High School in 1986. She attended the University of Maryland and later attended Georgetown University Law Center for a year and a half.

Kirsten Powers: Professional Life and Career

Kirsten Powers served in the Clinton Administration as a Deputy assistant US trade representative. Power became a vice president at the AOL Time Warner Foundation.

Kirsten was a consultant for the New York State Democratic Committee.

Kirsten Powers was press secretary for the Andrew Cuomo for Governor Campaign and Democratic National Committee. In 2015 Regnery Press published her book ‘The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech.

She has consulted for various NGOs Human rights First and NCRW. She is in a Democratic political party.

Kirsten Powers: Salary and Net Worth

The average salary of this author and columnist is $950,000.

According to some sources, she has an estimated net worth of $20 million as of 2022.

Rumors and Controversy

In 2011, Kirsten Powers criticized the American’s concern about the Muslim Brotherhood rising to power in Egypt as ‘naivete’.

Power was criticized in her own word on Twitter after she blamed Covington Catholic High School students for ‘Disrespecting an indigenous elder’. Powers has written opinion pieces against elective late-term abortions.