Her background gives her a front-row seat to the immigrant experience.

“I had to feed them.

Those experiences proved to be lessons for Jean-Pierre.

Karine Jean-Pierre’s first White House briefing

“Don’t put people up on a pedestal,” she said.

We are flawed individuals.”

You have to confirm that you navigate through those waters, so that you could continue your career."

Karine Jean-Pierre being interviewed

But Jean-Pierre’s also has happier associations.

She and her partner, journalist Suzanne Malveaux, have a young daughter.

Karine Jean-Pierre with Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III

Karine Jean-Pierre delivering the White House Briefing