Karen Skelton is the CEO of The Shriver Report. In 2011, she founded Skelton Strategies, a national political and cultural strategy firm. Skelton served for a decade as the Managing Partner of the California practice of the Dewey Square Group, and before that as a prosecutor at the United State Department of Justice, a political advisor in the Clinton White House, and a staffer on five Presidential campaigns. She lives in Sacramento with her husband and two daughters. Skelton previously worked in the White House during the Clinton Administration on the political staff and as a member of the defense team that argued against the Impeachment of the President of the United States. Skelton served as the first Director of Political Affairs for then Vice President Al Gore, initiating and managing his first national political program in preparation for his 2000 election campaign. Skelton received her B.A. with honors in English from UCLA, a Masters from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and her J.D. from UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. She currently serves on the boards of the California Arts Council and the UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies.