Kirsten Powers

Kirsten Powers is a columnist for USA Today and The Daily Beast, where she writes about politics, human rights, and faith, and the author of the forthcoming release, “The Silencing: How the Left Is Killing Free Speech.” She joined FOX News Channel in 2004 and currently serves as a rotating panelist on “Outnumbered“ and as a network contributor, providing political analysis and commentary across FOX News’s daytime and primetime programming, including “Special Report with Bret Baier” and FOX News Sunday. She previously served as a columnist for The New York Post, a communications consultant at Human Rights First and for the New York State Democratic Committee, and vice president for international communications at America Online, Inc. From 1993 to 1998, Powers worked as deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for public affairs in the Clinton administration. She began her career as a staff assistant at the Office of President Bill Clinton, on the Clinton/Gore Presidential Transition Team.