Marie Harf
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| Born |
Marie Elizabeth Harf June 15, 1981 Chicago, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Indiana University Bloomington University of Virginia |
| Occupation | Television commentator; former U.S. State Department official |
| Spouse(s) | Joshua Lucas (m. 2012) |
Marie Elizabeth Harf (born June 15, 1981) was the Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the United States Department of State, leading the Iran nuclear negotiations communications strategy. She previously served as Acting Spokesperson and Deputy Spokesperson of the State Department.
She is now a political commentator for the Fox News Channel.
Harf, daughter of Jane Ax Harf of Granville, Ohio, and James E. Harf of St. Louis. and a native of Granville, Ohio, graduated from Granville High School in 1999. She graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a BA in Political Science with concentrations in Jewish Studies and Russian and Eastern European Studies, and then received her master's degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, where her thesis evaluated the prospects for continued regime stability in Saudi Arabia.
Harf began her career at the Directorate of Intelligence at the CIA as an analyst focusing on Middle Eastern leadership issues. She later became the media spokesperson of the CIA.
During the 2012 presidential election, Harf helped craft U.S. President Barack Obama's national security and communications strategy, and also served as campaign spokesperson on national security issues.
In June 2013, Harf was appointed Deputy Spokesperson for the Department of State, where she served as deputy under Jen Psaki.
Harf attracted controversy for an interview she gave on Hardball with Chris Matthews on February 16, 2015 following the release the day before of a video by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya. In response to questioning from Matthews on the U.S.'s strategy toward ISIS, Harf said, "We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it's a lack of opportunity for jobs, whether ..." Her critics ridiculed her on social media with the hashtag "#JobsForISIS", which became a top-10 trending topic on U.S. Twitter.
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