Kellyanne Conway

Kellyanne Conway was born Kellyanne Elizabeth Fitzpatrick in Camden, NJ. Conway spent her formative years working on a blueberry farm in New Jersey before enrolling in college. She graduated from Trinity College, Washington, D.C. with a bachelor's degree in political science, and went on to earn a doctorate from George Washington University Law School, completing her academic tenure in 1992. In the years following graduation, Conway worked as a judicial clerk for the Superior Court of Washington, D.C., for the Virginia-based Republican polling firm Wirthlin Group, and for political consultant Frank I. Luntz. In 1995, Conway founded the Polling Company, a research and consulting firm bent on aiding the work and careers of Republican government officials and hopefuls. Conway built up a reputation throughout the 1990s, working with the likes of Newt Gengritch, Dan Quayle, and future Vice President Mike Pence. In 2005, Conway co-wrote the book What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live with Democratic political strategist Celinda Lake. Conway's collaborations with Pence would resume during the 2016 Presidential Election, when she was hired to abet the campaign of Presidential candidate Donald Trump, despite having previously vocalized disparagement of Trump's behavior. Upon the election of Trump as President of the United States in November of 2016, Conway maintained public association with the President, speaking on behalf of his administration to the news circuit. Following a February 2017 appearance on the political talk show "Hardball with Chris Matthews" (MSNBC 1994-), at which point Conway cited what was quickly revealed to be a falsified account of a terrorist incident that she referred to as the Bowling Green Massacre, and another in which she hawked Ivanka Trump's clothing line in direct violation of a law against endorsing businesses by members of presidential administrations, Conway endured a wave of backlash from the news circuit, earning an indefinite suspension from the talk show "Morning Joe" (MSNBC 2007-).