Kristen Lynne Soltis Anderson is a Republican

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'' named Anderson one of the 30 People Under 30 who are changing the world. ''

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'' declared Anderson one of the "New Guard" of fifty rising female leaders.

Early life and education

Kristen Lynne Soltis grew up in

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. She graduated from the

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with a B.A. in

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in 2005; she obtained her M.A. in government from

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in 2009. As a junior in college, she interned with the

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of the

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and was appointed by

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to the Florida Commemorative Quarter Committee.The Institute of Politics at Harvard University: "Kristen Soltis Anderson"
Fall 2014 As a senior, she interned at The Winston Group, an opinion research and political communications firm based in

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Career

After graduation in 2005, she accepted a full-time position with The Winston Group, where she focused on the youth vote and education reform. After earning her graduate degree in 2009, she published excerpts from her thesis as articles on Pollster.com and conservative blog ''The Next Right''. In 2010, her findings were mentioned by Democratic

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and commentator

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, leading to appearances on television news shows as a guest commentator and

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. She received one million dollars from a Republican super PAC to research the youth vote and served as its

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. During the 2012 elections, she was a communications adviser to Crossroads Generation, a Republican organization focused on the youth vote. After

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lost the 2012 youth vote, she co-developed a guidebook outlining strategies for the Republican Party to garner more votes from young people. In 2014, she made the

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s annual Women of Washington list of the 25 most influential Washington women under 35. In 2014, she left The Winston Group and founded research organization Echelon Insights with

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. In 2015, she published ''The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials are Leading America (and How Republicans Can Keep Up)''. Anderson has cohosted two live media blogs: ''The Week In Blog'' for

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and ''Wilshire and Washington'' for ''

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''. She served as an issue-advocacy adviser to the YG Network in support of its efforts to develop conservative women activists. She co-hosts a podcast called ''The Pollsters''.

Works

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Personal life

Kristen and Chris Anderson were married on April 28, 2012. Soltis Anderson has a

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named Wallace ("Wally").

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Kristen Soltis’ Bio
''The Recovering Politician'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Kristen Soltis Living people American political writers American women television personalities Pollsters American political commentators 1984 births Writers from Orlando, Florida University of Florida alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni Washington, D.C., Republicans Television personalities from Florida