Psaki, Jen, 1978-

<p> Described by The New York Times as, “the unflappable and genial point-person” to the media during the various crises of President Obama’s campaign and presidency, Psaki offers a fresh and current perspective on the state of the political system and lessons learned for today’s environment from her time as former President Barack Obama’s communications chief and campaign advisor. </p>

<p> Prior to her return to the White House, she served as the spokesperson at the Department of State. She is currently the Vice President for Communications and Strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a CNN political commentator. </p>

<p> Jen Psaki is currently the Vice President for Communications and Strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an on air commentator and opinion writer for CNN. </p>

<p> Described by The New York Times as, “the unflappable and genial point-person” to the media during the various crises of President Obama’s campaign and presidency, Jen served as the White House Communications Director during President Obama’s final two years in office. In this role, she was one of the primary advisors to President Obama on domestic, national security and political issues. She also led an ambitious effort to modernize the White House approach to communicating taking a more creative and digitally focused approach to breaking through the noise of the modern media environment. </p>

<p> Prior to this role, she served as the spokesperson at the Department of State. As the public face for US foreign policy, she conducted daily briefings with international media, traveled to more than fifty-five countries with then Secretary of State John Kerry and served as a senior strategist to the Secretary and the Department on how to utilize communications as a tool of diplomacy. </p>

<p> She also served as Deputy White House Communications Director during President Obama’s first term and ran point on coordinating and implementing the public response of the government to the financial crisis, working closely with the Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and key senior cabinet officials throughout the administration. </p>

<p> Jen has also served in a number of roles in government and on political campaigns including as the traveling press secretary on both the 2008 and 20012 Obama campaigns, as a spokesperson at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, as a spokesperson for Secretary John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign and as the Communications Director for Congressman Joe Crowley. </p>

Jennifer Rene Psaki (/sɑːkiː/; born December 1, 1978) is the former White House Communications Director. She previously served as a spokesperson for the United States Department of State and in various press and communications roles in the Obama White House. She is a contributor on CNN.

<p> As the White House Communications Director, Jen Psaki advises the President on communications strategy for issues ranging from domestic policy, to foreign policy to politics. She has led the reboot of the White House approach to media engagement in the final two years taking a more ambitious and creative approach to non-traditional and online media. And she leads a team responsible for crisis communications, traditional and digital media, speechwriting, research, event and policy planning. </p>

<p> Prior to her current role, Psaki served as the State Department Spokesperson conducting a daily briefing with members of the domestic and international media and serving as the primary spokesperson for the Department of State internationally. She was the primary strategic communications advisor to Secretary Kerry, traveling with him to more than fifty countries and over 600,000 miles. And she was on the front lines of every international crisis, coordinating messaging closely with senior members of the national security team across the Administration on a daily basis. Psaki also played a prominent role in modernizing the communications tools used by senior Department officials, including social media. </p>

<p> Psaki previously served as a senior communications advisor and traveling press secretary to President Obama during his successful re-election campaign. In this role, she was one of the primary on-air representatives on network, financial and cable news, briefed the national media daily, played a central role in media and communications strategy and was named by Politico as one of “50 Politicos to watch” in 2012. </p>

<p> Prior to joining the campaign, she served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy White House Communications Director responsible for helping run the day-to-day incoming news response and longer term strategic communications planning. Psaki was described by The New York Times as, “the unflappable and genial point-person ” to the media during the various crises of President Obama’s campaign and presidency. </p>

<p> She has also worked on many national and state political campaigns across the country in roles including Traveling Press Secretary for President Obama’s first presidential campaign, Communications Director for the Office of Congressman Joseph Crowley, and Midwest and Northeast Regional Press Secretary at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. </p>

<p> She has a B.A. from The College of William and Mary. </p>

<p> Jen Psaki is vice president for communications and strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She previously served as White House communications director in Barack Obama’s administration from 2015 to 2017 and as the spokesperson at the State Department under then secretary of state John Kerry from 2013 to 2015. </p>

<p> Prior to joining the State Department in 2013, Psaki served as deputy White House communications director, working hand in hand with the economic team during the financial crisis, and as a senior adviser and traveling press secretary for the Obama campaigns during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. </p>

<p> Her prior roles also include senior vice president at Global Strategy Group, a New York City–based strategic consulting and polling firm; communications director for Congressman Joseph Crowley; regional spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; and deputy press secretary for John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004. </p>

<p> Described by the New York Times as “the unflappable and genial point-person” to the media during the various crises of Obama’s campaigns and presidency, she was also named as one of fifty politicos to watch by POLITICO in 2012. </p>

<p> She is a CNN contributor and has recently written pieces for Ozy, the Hill, and Refinery29. Psaki has a bachelor of arts degree in English from the College of William and Mary.