US President Joe Biden on Thursday appointed Karine Jean-Pierre as the next Press Secretary of the White House, the first black person holding a high profile position.
Jean-Pierre, who will also be the first LGBTQ+ openly in that role, will replace Jen Psaki, under whom he serves as a representative, starting May 13.
Biden in a statement praising “experience, talent, and integrity of Jean-Pierre, said that he was” proud “to announce his appointment.
She will be the first black woman and the first LGBTQ+ person is openly serving as the Press Secretary of the White House,” Tweet Psaki after the announcement.
Representation is important and he will vote to many people, but also make many big dreams about what is really possible.”
The Press Secretary who came out, who said from the beginning that he would resign during the term of Biden’s office, would join MSNBC, according to the US media report.
Jean-Pierre, 44, worked on the two campaigns of former President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 and then in the Biden campaign in 2020 before joining the Biden Team in the White House.
Jean-Pierre was previously the Head of Public Affairs Officials for the Mindones.org Liberal Advocacy Group and worked as political analysts with NBC and MSNBC, the White House statement said.
Growing up in New York, Jean-Pierre in French-language was born in Martinique from Haiti’s parents who were emigrated to the United States, where his father drove a taxi and his mother worked as a cleanser.
In New York, he took his first step to politics before becoming a prominent figure in the non -profit, after graduating from the prestigious Columbia University.
Jean-Pierre often said his family’s background, the symbol of “American dreams,” was a determinant in his career.
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In a book published in 2019, he wrote about “Pressure Growing in Immigrant Households for Success.
The pressure grew very large, and my failure was so strong, that I felt my family would be better without me. At one point, I tried to commit suicide,” he said in a post published on the MSNBC website.
I am everything that Donald Trump hates,” said Jean-Pierre, who has a daughter with his colleague, a journalist with CNN, referring to the predecessor of Biden in the 2018 video for Moveon.org.
