Name Karen Finney Employer MSNBC Nationality American | Height 1.75 m Role Political Consultant | |
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Education University of California, Los Angeles TV shows Disrupt with Karen Finney, The Ed Show Profiles | ||
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Karen Finney (born August 15, 1967) is an American political consultant and spokesman for the Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. She was a political commentator for MSNBC and hosted the show Disrupt with Karen Finney.
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Personal life
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 Civil War general, Robert E. Lee. As a child, she moved to California with her mother, and went on to attend UCLA.
Career
Finney served four years as the spokesperson and Director of Communications at the Democratic National Committee. She has also written for The Hill, is a commentator for Politico, MSNBC and The Huffington Post.
Finney served as Press Secretary for Hillary Clinton in the early 1990s. She then moved into the private sector, working in marketing for the children’s academic book company Scholastic Inc.
In 2001, she managed crisis communications for the New York City Board of Education, and worked for Elizabeth Edwards during the 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. On June 5, 2014, it was announced that Finney's weekend news program was cancelled.
On November 25, 2014 Finney joined Media Matters as a senior fellow and consultant.
On April 6, 2015, CNN announced that she was selected as Strategic Communications Adviser and Senior Spokesperson for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.