Katrina Lanette Shaddix was born on 20 July 1976, in Kansas, USA, into a family of mixed ethnicity, as her mother is white and her father is black. Katrina is best known as a spokesperson for Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign. Additionally, she is known as a CNN contributor his.
So just how rich is Katrina Pierson as of early 2018? According to authoritative sources, Katrina has a net worth of over $500,000, with her wealth being accumulated from her career in the mentioned fields.
Katrina Pierson Net Worth $500,000
When it comes to her education, Katrina attended Kilgore College, and in 2006 received a BA degree in biology, graduating from the University of Texas, Dallas. As of 2008, she began working for InVenity Health, and then in the Baylor Health Care System as of mid-2009, remaining on the position over the course of the next two years and serving as a practice administrator. In 2011 she began working for ASG Software Solutions, taking the position of the director of corporate affairs, and ended up spending about one year working on that project.
Pierson became active in politics as well. In 2008, she voted for Barack Obama, a democrat, in the presidential election. Additionally, she has stated that Malcolm X was her political idol, but that Martin Luther King Jr. was ‘‘too moderate’’ for her taste. Nevertheless, she began leaning towards rightward, and ended up becoming an activist for the Tea Party in 2009. Shortly after that, she spoke at a Dallas Tea Party event, and then established a Tea Party group in Garland, Texas. In 2012, she was a spokesperson for Ted Cruz, and went on to appear with him on stage during the election night in the same year. During one event she met Donald Trump, and after that began working in the position of a national spokesperson for his presidential campaign. As a result of that, she would often be seen on television, as she served as a CNN correspondent too. Additionally, Katrina somehow defended Trump from his sometimes problematic comments. After Donald Trump became the president, Pierson began working at America First Policies, which supports Trump, turning down the chance to work in the position of a Deputy Press Secretary. When it comes to her latest accomplishments, in March 2018 she was hired as a senior adviser for Trump’s upcoming 2020 campaign.
When it comes to her private life, Katrina grew up in poverty. She has been married once, but that lasted for a short period of time; from that marriage she has one son. She is active on social media such as Twitter and Insatgram, and is followed by 384,000 people on the former and 53,200 on the latter. In 1997 when she was 20, Katrina was accused of and arrested for shoplifting, and pleaded no contest and went on receive deferred adjudication. Ultimately, she was dismissed and the case was sealed. Supposedly, she took $168 worth of merchandise from a Plano store, J. C. Penney and according to some sources, her infant son was with her then. Later on, Katrina stated that the mentioned incident helped her come to the realization of some things and she went on to turn her life around after it.
