Marie Harf
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Marie Harf comes to Penn from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she served as the executive director of external relations and marketing. Previously she worked as a senior advisor and deputy spokesperson for Secretary John Kerry at the U.S. Department of State, as the foreign policy director on Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, as the executive director of political organization Serve America, and as a Middle East analyst and spokesperson at the Central Intelligence Agency. Since 2017, Harf has been an on-air commentator for Fox News. She holds a BA degree in political science from Indiana University with concentrations in Jewish Studies and Russian and Eastern European Studies, and a master's degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.