Kristen Soltis Anderson is Founding Partner of Echelon Insights, an opinion research and analytics firm. She is a pollster, speaker, and author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America (And How Republicans Can Keep Up). She regularly advises leaders on polling trends and messaging strategy. She is an on-air political contributor at CNN. She also leads focus groups for The New York Times’ opinion section’s “America in Focus” series and is a contributing Opinion writer for the paper. Kristen has served as a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and Georgetown’s Institute of Politics and Public Service. Originally from Orlando, Florida, Kristen now resides in Washington, DC.