Kristen Soltis Anderson is a pollster, speaker, commentator, and author of “The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America (And How Republicans Can Keep Up)”. She is a founding partner of Echelon Insights, an opinion research and analytics firm that serves brands, trade associations, nonprofits, and political clients. Through her work at Echelon, she advises corporate and government leaders on polling and messaging strategy, and has become one of the foremost experts on the Millennial generation. She also leads focus groups for The New York Times opinion section’s “America in Focus” series, is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and is an on-air contributor for CNN. She has appeared on programs such as The Daily Show, Meet The Press, and HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher. She writes the Codebook newsletter on Substack.
In 2016, Soltis Anderson was named one of ELLE’s “Most Compelling Women in Washington”. Three years earlier she was named one of TIME’s “30 Under 30 Changing the World”. She has served as a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics and Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service. She holds a master’s degree in government from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Florida.