Kirsten Powers, Author, 'Saving Grace: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts'
Join Michael Zeldin and Kirsten Powers as we discuss her new and inspiring book, Saving Grace: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts. Saving Grace offers a compelling prescription for navigating the times in which we find ourselves. Grace,Kirstencompellingly, argues is what makes human coexistence possible.
Kirsten is a USA Today columnist and a senior political analyst for CNN. Prior to her journalism career, Kirsten served as the Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Public Affairs in the Clinton and various other communication-related roles.
About Our Guest
Kirsten Powers is a CNN senior political analyst, columnist for USA Today and NYT bestselling author whose new book is "Saving Grace: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered and Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts," published on Nov. 2, 2021.
Kirsten formerly was a columnist for The Daily Beast, American Prospect Online and the New York Post. The Columbia Journalism Review called her "an outspoken liberal journalist" in a sea of opposition at Fox News, where she previously served as a political analyst.
Her writing has been published in the Washington Post, Elle magazine, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, and Salon.com.
Before her career in journalism, Kirsten was a political appointee in the Clinton Administration and worked in New York Democratic politics. She was also Vice President for International Communications at America Online, Inc. where she oversaw the day-to-day communications of AOL businesses outside the United States and developed and executed the public launches of AOL businesses in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Hong Kong and Australia.
Kirsten graduated from the University of Maryland-College Park with a B.S. in Journalism. She hails from Fairbanks, Alaska and currently resides in Washington, DC
