Karen Finney

Karen Finney (born August 15, 1967) is an American political consultant and spokesperson for the Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. She was a political commentator for MSNBC and hosted the show Disrupt with Karen Finney. Early life and education 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 Confederate Civil War general, Robert E. Lee. As a child, she moved to California with her mother, and attended the University of California, Los Angeles. 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 Scholastic Corporation.