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Sally Kohn Biography
Sally Kohn is an American writer, keynote speaker, activist, TV commentator, and author. She is a former Fox News contributor and a regular political commentator on CNN. She is an American liberal political commentator, community organizer, and founder and chief executive officer of the Movement Vision Lab.
Prior to joining the media, Kohn served as Senior Campaign Strategist with the Center for Community Change., a hub of grassroots organizations nationwide. She also served as co-director of ideas and innovation for the Center, helping lead the pioneering Campaign for Community Values, producing a nationally televised Presidential candidate forum in 2008, developing a new media organizing project on health care reform in rural communities and spearheading several other initiatives.
She also served as the executive director of the Third Wave Foundation. She held a program fellowship at the Ford Foundation, helping to manage more than $15 million in annual grants to social justice organizations nationwide. She also served as Executive Director of the Third Wave Foundation, the leading young women’s organization and was also a distinguished Vaid Fellow at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, where she published a groundbreaking guidebook for organizing campaigns to win domestic partnership benefits.
She was also a strategic advisor to the Social Justice Infrastructure Funders, a private network of 25 top program staff from some of the nation’s most prominent foundations, working to identify a shared strategy and coordinate grantmaking.
Sally Kohn Age
Sally was born on born on 27th March 1977 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
Sally Kohn Education
Kohn has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. In 2002 she graduated with a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law. She has a master’s degree in public administration from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Sally Kohn Parents
Kohn was born to Donald Kohn, an engineer, and Melinda Kohn, a computer programmer.
Sally Kohn Partner
Sally is openly gay and lives with her partner Sarah Hansen, the two met in 2003 at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Sally Kohn Daughter
Sally has a daughter with Hansen named Will Hansen-Kohn. Kohn once drew criticism after she stated in an essay in The Washington Post that she would prefer that her daughter grow up to be a lesbian and that she is “disappointed” that her daughter has shown a romantic interest in boys. She, however, concluded that all she ultimately cares about is that her daughter “has the choice and that whatever choice she makes is enthusiastically embraced and celebrated” and supports her in “whatever choices she makes.”
Sally Kohn Career in Media
Sally has appeared on MSNBC shows The Ed Show, Up with Steve Kornacki, Now with Alex Wagner, and on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. She has also published op-eds for outlets including Fox News, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today. She is also a contributor to The Huffington Post.
Sally Kohn Fox News
Kohn joined Fox News in 2010 as a liberal commentator until 2013. During her time with the network she said she came to realize how condescending she had been in her views about not only the people who worked at Fox News but the people watching at home.
Sally Kohn Net Worth
Sally has not made her net worth public yet.
Sally Kohn New Book
She is the author of The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity.
Sally Kohn Podcast
Sally hosts a podcast State of Resistance with Sally Kohn which explores the emotional toll of activism on community organizers and leaders on the left.
Sally Kohn Ted Talk
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