US President Joe Biden on Thursday named Karen Jean-Pierre as the new White House press secretary, becoming the first black lesbian woman to hold the post.
From May 13, Jean-Pierre will replace Jeanne Psaki, who until now has been her deputy, according to a statement released by the US president.
Biden expressed pride in this appointment.
The President of the United States praised the “experience, talent and integrity” of his new press secretary.
“She will be the first black woman to take office,” Jane Psaki, who announced after taking possession of the monument that she would step down before Biden’s term expires, added that her successor would “give a voice to many people and allow many to have big dreams.” “.
And the American media reported that Psaki would join the old-fashioned MSNBC station.
Karen Jean-Pierre was born in Martinique to Haitian parents who later immigrated to the United States.
She worked on the 2008 and 2012 campaigns of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign before joining his White House team.
She graduated from the prestigious Columbia University before entering associations and politics. She often spoke of her family’s path to the “American Dream” and its decisive influence on her career.
She grew up in New York City, where her father worked as a taxi driver and her mother worked in the health care industry at home.
In 2018, she said in a video clip of the Move On organization, which at one time was one of its most prominent faces: “I represent everything that (former president) Donald Trump hates.”
