Kellyanne Conway
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Kellyanne Conway is a Republican
Republican Party (United States)
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 strategist
Strategist
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 and poll
Opinion poll
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ster. She is president and CEO of the polling company, inc./WomanTrend.

Company

Conway founded the polling company, inc. 1995 and is its president and CEO. The firm includes WomanTrend, a research and consulting division founded in 1993 to better connect corporate America with the female consumer. WomanTrend monitors female consumers as well as a multitude of current and prospective lifestyle, home, work, entertainment, technological, and generational trends affecting all consumers.

Personal expertise

Throughout her two decades in market research, Conway has provided primary research and advice for clients in 46 of the 50 states and has directed hundreds of demographic and attitudinal survey projects for statewide and congressional political races, trade associations, and Fortune 100 companies. Clients include Lifetime Television
Lifetime Television
Lifetime Television, often referred to as Lifetime TV, or most commonly, Lifetime, is an American cable television specialty channel devoted to movies, sitcoms and dramas, all of which are either geared toward women or feature women in lead roles. The cable network is owned by A&E Television Networks...

, The Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation
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, Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
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, The Federalist Society, Coalition of Community Pharmacists Association, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Mass Connections, American Express
American Express
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, ABC News
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, Ladies Home Journal, and the U.S. Department of Labor.

She has provided commentary on over 1,200 television shows, and numerous radio shows and print stories. She has been profiled in over a dozen magazines, newspapers, and television programs. Her polling data and op-eds have been published by many newspapers. She has received the Washington Post’s “Crystal Ball” award for accurately predicted elections.

Education/Law Career

Conway is a graduate of Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
Trinity Washington University
Trinity Washington University, founded in 1897 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, is a Roman Catholic university located in Washington, D.C. across from Catholic University of America and the Dominican House of Studies...

, where she earned a B.A. in Political Science.

She holds a law degree from George Washington University Law Center
George Washington University
The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...

. She has clerked for a judge in Washington, D.C. For four years she was an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law Center
George Washington University
The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...

.

Personal life

Born as Kellyanne Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, she was raised in South Jersey
South Jersey
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. She is married to George T. Conway III, a litigation partner at the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. The couple has four children and live in the New York City area.

Further reading

Conway and Democratic
Democratic Party (United States)
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 pollster Celinda Lake
Celinda Lake
Celinda Lake is a pollster and political strategist for the Democratic Party in the United States of America.-Background and education:A native of Montana, Lake earned her Master's degree in Political Science and Survey Research from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She attended Smith...

co-authored What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live (Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 2005; ISBN 0-7432-7382-6)

Mass Connections, Inc. commissioned Conway's research services to inform Volumes 1-3 of the Touch America series, including The Consumer Connection, The Shopper Connection, and Connecting with Consumers ... IN STORE· ON LINE· IN LIFE®.

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