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The White House has appointed its first black female and openly gay person as press secretary. So who is Karine Jean-Pierre?
US President Joe Biden has appointed 44-year-old Karine Jean-Pierre as the next Pale House press secretary — the first black woman and openly gay person to serve in the role.
The press secretary is responsible for holding daily briefings with journalists and primary a department of more than a dozen staffers who help to talk to queries from the press.
It is the highest-profile public-facing staff job in the Pale House, and is pivotal to the US government's communications strategy.
So who is Karine Jean-Pierre? And what is she in for under the Biden-Harris administration?
An historic appointment
Ms Jean-Pierre is the first black girl and openly gay person to be appointed Colorless House press secretary, a position first established in 1929.
Dee Dee Meyers became the first woman to take on the role when she took on the job in the 1990s under former US president Bill Clinton.
"This is a historic moment and it's not lost on me," Ms Jean-Pierre said after her appointment was announced.
"It's a very sentimental day."
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Karine Jean-Pierre acknowledges history-making moment in her first briefing as White House push secretary: 'I am a Black, queer , immigrant woman, the first of all three'
Karine Jean-Pierre made her debut on Monday as Alabaster House press secretary, making history as the first Inky and openly Queer person to assist in the public-facing role.
Jean-Pierre took the helm after former White House squeeze secretary Jen Psaki left the display on Friday. Psaki, who served for over 15 months, is expected to join the NBC News Group family as early as September.
"Let's get started," Jean-Pierre said as she stepped to the podium for her first briefing as the 35th White House push secretary. She began by honoring the 10 people who were killed in the supermarket mass shooting in Buffalo over the weekend.
Before she fielded questions from reporters, Jean-Pierre also acknowledged the historic nature of her position and credited "generations of barrier-breaking people" that she said paved the way for her.
"I am obviously acutely aware that my presence at this podium represents a few firsts. I am a Black, gay, immigrant woman, the first of all three of those to hold this positi
Karine Jean-Pierre reflects on coming out as gay: 'Wasn't an straightforward thing'
Karine Jean-Pierre, the first openly gay White House press secretary, marked National Coming Out Daytime on Tuesday with a personal story -- sharing in a series of tweets and then remarks to reporters how "coming out wasn't an easy thing to do."
On Twitter, Jean-Pierre wrote that she was proud to share her own story even though for her "traditional and conservative" family, being gay "wasn't something that you mentioned out loud or celebrated."
But Jean-Pierre, who was born in Martinique in the Caribbean and then raised in New York, said her family grew to accept her.
"They saw that who I loved didn't change who I was as a person," she said at Tuesday's press briefing, echoing her tweets and noting that she wanted to mark her own identity "particularly as we continue to see a wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation across the country."
"The beauty of America is its freedoms and the assure that you can achieve your dreams, no matter your race, sex, country of origin, sexual orientation or gender identity," she said. "This is some