Kristen Soltis Anderson is a columnist for the Washington Examiner and a co-host, with Margie Omero, of The Pollsters. Co-founder of Echelon Insights, she is also a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum, a think-tank that considers women's issues from a free-market perspective. Soltis Anderson is the author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America (And How Republicans Can Keep Up). She is a former vice president and director of policy research at the Winston Group.
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