Karenna Gore
Schiff was born in Tennessee and was raised both there and in
Washington, D.C. where her father, Al Gore, represented the state
as a United States Congressman and Senator before serving as
Vice-President of the United States. She received her B.A. in
History and Literature from Harvard University in 1995 and her J.D.
from Columbia University in 2000.

Upon graduation, she moved to Madrid, Spain for a year where she
worked at El Pais newspaper and then returned to take a job at
Slate magazine in Seattle. In 2000, she worked in her father's
campaign for president as the Youth Outreach Chair. Following that,
she practiced law at Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett and then
worked with the Association to Benefit Children, under the
direction of Gretchen Buchenholz, one of the nine women featured in
LIGHTING THE WAY.

LIGHTING THE WAY is her first book. She also has written articles
for Newsweek, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Harper's
Bazaar. She lives in New York City with her husband and two
children.

Books by Karenna Gore Schiff

Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America

by Karenna Gore Schiff