Francine Kiefer is based in the Los Angeles area as the West Coast Bureau Chief for The Christian Science Monitor. She is an award-winning journalist and on the board of the Los Angeles Press Club. She also has a long journalistic history in Washington, most recently as the Monitor’s Congressional Correspondent and earlier as White House correspondent – covering the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. In between those two assignments, she served as commentary editor and editorial writer, also in Washington. In 1989, Francine reported on the fall of the Berlin Wall as the Monitor’s correspondent in Germany. In her early career she was a business reporter. She joined the Monitor in 1980.
Francine also worked for nearly five years as the National Editor for The San Jose Mercury News in California’s Silicon Valley. She holds a BA in English literature from Smith College and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Goucher College. She has taught workshops on opinion writing at George Washington University and other colleges.
Stories by Francine Kiefer
- How a California neighborhood’s holiday lights bring a community together
- Newsom vs. Trump: When big states take on the White House
- The Trump economy: How will tariffs, taxes, and big debt affect workers?
- California backlash hands defeat to progressive criminal justice reform
- ‘A slap in the face.’ For many US women, Harris loss to Trump feels personal.
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