Karine Jean-Pierre, the francophone from Camp Biden

She is 43, is the mother of a little Sun that she adopted with his wife, Suzanne Malveaux, a CNN reporter, and joined Joe Biden’s team in May as a political advisor. She is now, since August, the campaign manager of Kamala Harris, running mate of the Democratic candidate. Karine Jean-Pierre is also the French speaker for the Biden team. Born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, to parents of Haitian origin who fled the Duvalier dictatorship, she grew up in Paris and then arrived with her family in the United States at the age of 5. Young, Black, lesbian, daughter of immigrants, environmentalist, progressive, who masters the art of communication: Joe Biden found in her the ideal person to embody diversity, mobilize minorities and energize his campaign. To try to rejuvenate its image, too.

Alongside Barack Obama

After studying public administration at Columbia University in New York, Karine Jean-Pierre quite quickly branched out into politics. She worked for John Edwards, candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 2008 presidential election, then joined Barack Obama’s campaign team, before becoming part of his administration, as regional director for the Office of Political Affairs of the White House. In 2011, she put her energy into her re-election team, focusing on swing states, these pivotal states capable of swinging from one camp to another.