Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Karine Jean-Pierre, author of this her first book, a memoir entitled Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and The Promise OF America, published in November by Hanover Square Press.

Karine was born in Martinique raised by working class Haitian immigrant parents in New York. She obtained her master’s degree in public administration from Columbia and was regional director for John Edward’s campaign in 2004. She served as Barack Obama’s regional political director in the Office of Political affairs and is now the chief public affairs office (at one of my favorite organizations) MoveOn.org. She is also a political analyst for MSNBC and appears frequently on many other networks and programs.

Moving On is a story about immigrant struggles and dreams, overcoming challenges and obstacles and MOVING ON to success and fulfillment in life. It is also an optimistic primer on what you can do to achieve the same goals as Karine has striven for AND achieve and how you can do it without getting in your car, driving to D.C. and try to change the whole shebang.