Kristen Soltis Anderson

Kristen Lynne Soltis Anderson (born 1984) is a Republican pollster, television personality, and writer whose work has appeared in The Daily Beast, Politico, and HuffPost.

In 2013 Time named Anderson one of the 30 People Under 30 who are changing the world. Marie Claire declared Anderson one of the "New Guard" of fifty rising female leaders.

Early life and education Kristen Lynne Soltis grew up in Orlando, Florida. She attended the International Baccalaureate program at Cypress Creek High School, before graduating from the University of Florida with a B.A. in political science in 2005, and subsequently obtaining her M.A. in government from Johns Hopkins University in 2009. As a senior, she interned at The Winston Group, an opinion research and political communications firm based in Washington, D.C.

In 2014, she left The Winston Group and founded research organization Echelon Insights with Patrick Ruffini.

Anderson has cohosted two live media blogs: The Week In Blog for Bloggingheads.tv and Wilshire and Washington for Variety. She served as an issue-advocacy adviser to the YG Network in support of its efforts to develop conservative women activists. They have a daughter who was born in 2022 and another daughter born in 2024.

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