Kirsten Powers Biography
Kirsten Powers is an author, columnist, and political analyst from the United States. She currently writes for USA Today and works as a CNN political analyst, appearing regularly on Anderson Cooper 360°, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, and The Lead with Jake Tapper.
How old is Kirsten Powers? – Age
She is 54 years old as of 14 December 2021. She was born in 1967 in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. Her real name is Kirsten Anne Powers.
Kirsten Powers Family – Education
When Powers was three years old, her family relocated to Fairbanks, Alaska. Her parents were archaeologists of Irish-American ancestry. She graduated from Monroe Catholic High School in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1986, and then went on to the University of Maryland and the Georgetown University Law Center, where she spent a year and a half.
Is Kirsten Powers Married to Robert Draper?
Powers announced her engagement to fellow journalist Robert Draper on November 16, 2016.
Is Kirsten Powers a Catholic? – Religion
Powers was raised as an Episcopalian but spent most of her adolescence as an atheist. She became an evangelical Christian in her mid-30s. The conversion process began when she dated a Christian man, who introduced her to the Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and the teachings of its pastor, Tim Keller, and culminated in an experience on a trip to Taiwan in 2006, about which she later wrote “I awoke in what felt like a strange hybrid of a dream and reality. ‘Here I am,’ Jesus said as he approached me.”
She has described her conversion as “a bit of a mind-bender” because of her political beliefs and previous atheism and prefers the term “orthodox Christian” to “evangelical” to describe herself, given the cultural baggage associated with the latter term. She has stated that her newfound faith had the greatest influence on her political beliefs because she came to “view everyone as God’s child, and that means everyone deserves grace and respect.” Powers was received into the Catholic Church on October 10, 2015.
How much is Kirsten Powers Net Worth?
She has an estimated net worth of $20 Million.
Kirsten Powers Politics
Powers urged the Obama administration to repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell” in 2009, claiming that “refusing the service of people like Lt. Daniel Choi” harmed national security. Powers called Americans’ lack of concern about the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power in Egypt “naive” in 2011.
Her concern stemmed in part from the fact that her then-husband, Marty Makary, was of Coptic descent. In an interview with Bill O’Reilly, Powers described her ideal foreign policy as one of limited engagement, in which the United States refrains from intervening in potentially volatile situations that it may not be able to control or even comprehend. Powers slammed Obama’s foreign policy, saying he should have returned the Nobel Peace Prize “a long time ago.” She apologized for being “too judgmental and condemning” in her social media and press statements.