1. Kiron Kanina Skinner was born on 1961 and is an American political scientist.
20 Facts About Kiron Skinner
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Kiron Skinner was Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State in the first Trump administration.
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Kiron Skinner is the W Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
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Kiron Skinner co-authored two books on Ronald Reagan: In His Own Hand and Reagan, a Life in Letters, which were New York Times bestsellers.
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In 2005, Skinner was appointed by President George W Bush to a term on the National Security Education Board.
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Kiron Skinner was born in Chicago in 1961 and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Kiron Skinner earned an associate degree in communications from Sacramento City College in 1979.
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Kiron Skinner won the Harry S Truman Scholarship for the State of California, which enabled her to move on to Spelman College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in political science.
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Kiron Skinner then earned an MA and PhD in political science and international relations from Harvard University.
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Kiron Skinner is the Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, where she teaches graduate courses in national security and public leadership.
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Kiron Skinner previously served at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was the founding director of the Institute for Politics and Strategy, part of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences; university adviser on national security policy; Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics; and director of the International Relations and Politics undergraduate major.
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Kiron Skinner has taught political science courses at Hamilton College, Harvard University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
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At Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Skinner is the W Glenn Campbell Research Fellow and a member of the Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy.
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In 2020, Kiron Skinner appointed Richard Grenell to a position at Carnegie Mellon University.
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In February 2021, Kiron Skinner stepped down as director of Carnegie Mellon's Institute for Politics and Strategy, which she founded.
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Kiron Skinner was a senior foreign policy adviser to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich during his presidential primary campaign from 2011 to 2012 and then to Mitt Romney's presidential general election campaign in the fall of 2012.
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In 2016, Kiron Skinner served on President-elect Donald Trump's transition team for national security.
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Kiron Skinner had a position as a senior advisor for the State Department but left the role after a few days.
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Kiron Skinner was given a coordinating role on the newly formed Commission on Unalienable Rights, whose creation was announced July 8,2019.
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In 2023, Kiron Skinner contributed to the State Department chapter in the ninth edition of Heritage Foundation's book Mandate for Leadership, which provides the policy agenda for Project 2025.