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Sally Kohn

Columnist & Political Commentator for CNN

Sally Kohn is one of the leading progressive voices in America today. A CNN political commentator and the Daily Beast.

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Sally Kohn is one of the leading progressive voices in America today. A CNN political commentator and the Daily Beast, Sally is a popular keynote speaker who makes audiences laugh and think.

Previously a Fox News contributor – the inspiration for her widely seen TED Talk – Sally’s writing has appeared in the Washington PostNew York TimesNew York Magazine, More Magazine, RollingStone.com, Elle.com, USA TodayAfar Magazine, and many other outlets. Her work has been highlighted by outlets ranging from the Colbert Report to the National Review. Sally is ranked by Mediate as one of the 100 most influential pundits on television and by the Advocate as the 35th gayest LGBT person in the media (she ranks far higher on that measure!).

Sally is a highly in-demand keynote speaker, with audiences including Mount Holyoke College, Spotify, the University of Kansas, Knoll, and Southern New Hampshire University. Sally also works as a media and public speaking coach, training hundreds of companies, organizations and individual leaders to be their most effective and impactful selves in public.

Previously, Sally was Senior Campaign Strategist with the Center for Community Change, a 45-year-old hub of grassroots organizations nationwide. Sally 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.

Before that, Sally served as Executive Director of the Third Wave Foundation, the leading young women’s organization in the country. She 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. Sally also worked as a consultant with the Urban Justice Center, publishing a report on the experiences of gay youth in the New York juvenile justice system.

Sally received a joint degree in law and public administration from New York University and was a Root Tilden public service scholar at the New York University School of Law.  She received her undergraduate degree from George Washington University in D.C.  Originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania, Sally now resides in Brooklyn, New York, with her partner Sarah Hansen and their daughter Willa.

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In Defense of Political Correctness & Identity Politics

Don’t Drink The Kool Aid: Emotional Correctness In A Mean And Ugly World

Don’t Fear Change, Seek It: What Executives Can Learn From Organizers

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What we can do about the culture of hate | Sally Kohn
SALLY KOHN: THE OPPOSITE OF HATE

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