The American president Joe Biden announced that Karine Jean-Pierre will be the new White House spokesperson in place of Jen Psaki, who will leave his post on 13 May. Jean-Pierre is currently the deputy to the current spokesperson. She is the first African American woman to hold this position.
Jean-Pierre, who turns 45 on August 13, has worked alongside Biden for years having held political and communications roles in the 2020 election campaign and also when he was vice president in the Obama administration.
“Karine not only brings the necessary experience, talent and integrity into this difficult job, but she will continue to drive the communication of the Biden-Harris administration’s work forward. Jill and I have known and respected Karine for a long time and she will be a strong voice that will speak for. me and for this administration “, wrote the president in a note in which he thanked Psaki” for raising the bar, communicating directly and sincerely with the American people and maintaining his sense of humor “.
“She will be the first black and openly LGBTQ + woman” to fill this position, tweeted Psaki, who had made it known early on that she would step down during her term. “Karine – she added she – she will give a voice to many people and allow many to have big dreams.”
The new designated spokesperson, companion of a journalist from the Cnnwith whom he has a daughter, was born in Martinique to Haitian parents then emigrated to the United States, worked on the two campaigns of Barack Obama (2008 and 2012) then Joe Biden’s in 2020, before joining his team at the White House. She graduated from the prestigious Columbia University before entering the world of associations and politics. She grew up in New York, where her father worked as a taxi driver and her mother as a carer. “They are everything Donald Trump hates,” she explained in 2018 in a video for the MoveOn organization, of which she was one of the leading figures.