Karenna Gore Schiff

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notableworks ="Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Shaped Modern America"
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Karenna Gore Schiff (born August 6, 1973) is an American author, journalist, and attorney. She is the eldest daughter of Al and Tipper Gore and the sister of Kristin Gore.

Background and family

Gore Schiff was born in Tennessee and grew up both there as well as in Washington D.C.. She graduated from National Cathedral School in 1991.cite web
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title=Daddy's girl
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publisher=Salon ] She received her B.A. in history and literature in 1995 from Harvard University and J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2000. She interned as a journalist for WREG-TV and "The Times-Picayune". She later wrote for "Slate" and was an attorney with a law firm in New York. [ [http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/schiff_karenna_gore.html New York State Writer's Institute] ]

On 12 July 1997, she married Andrew N. Schiff in Washington DC. [ [http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/07/12/gore.wedding AllPolitics - Gore's Eldest Daughter Weds New York Doctor In Washington - July 12, 1997] ] They have three children, Wyatt, Anna, and Oscar. [ [http://www.cookiemag.com/homefront/2008/05/karennagoreschiff Cookie Sheet: Karenna Gore Schiff] ]

2000 campaign and book

Gore Schiff worked on her father, Al Gore's, campaign during the 2000 presidential campaign as "Youth Outreach Chair." [ [http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/2000/08/14/daughter.html The Daughter Also Rises - August 14, 2000] ] [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E2DC153CF933A15752C1A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all A Gore Daughter Emerges as a Leading Adviser] ] Together with her father's former Harvard roommate Tommy Lee Jones, [ [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/16/se.03.html Joe Lieberman, Karenna Gore Schiff Speak to the Democratic National Convention] ] she officially nominated Gore as the presidential candidate during the 2000 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. [ [http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/16/convention.wrap.02/index.html CNN/AllPolitics.com - Election 2000 - The Democratic National Convention] ] She also introduced her father during the launching of his campaign. [ [http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/16/president.2000/gore/ Gore launches presidential campaign - June 16, 1999] ] [ [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/17/lkl.02.html Karenna Gore Schiff Discusses Her Father's Campaign] ]

In 2006, she published "", cite web
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publisher="USA Today"] a book written in reaction to the results of the 2000 campaign. Gore Schiff stated: "I wanted to turn all that frustration and sadness into something positive." The nine women profiled in the text are: Ida Wells-Barnett, Mother Jones, Alice Hamilton, Frances Perkins, Virginia Durr, Septima Clark, Dolores Huerta, Helen Rodriguez-Trias, and Gretchen Buchenholz. [ [http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2006-02-06-gore-side_x.htm Nine women who made a difference] ]

References

External links

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* [http://www.cookiemag.com/homefront/2008/05/karennagoreschiff Cookie Sheet: Karenna Gore Schiff]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/02/22/DI2006022201573_pf.html# Books: 'Lighting the Way']