Eight days after the death of Kerk, the Turning Point Usa board Unanimously Erika, 36, to be the CEO and the next president, to help lead the organization whose late husband participated in 2012 when he was only 18 years old.

The date was not unexpected. Members of the Board of Directors revealed that Charlie Kerk had previously expressed many executives that this caliphate plan is what he wanted if he died. “Keep Charlie all for a moment like this,” The council said in its announcement. “I have worked tirelessly to ensure the construction of Turning Point Usa to survive even the greatest tests.”

From political science to Bible studies

Erika Lin Franzaf was born on November 20, 1988. Her mother, divorce, originated in Scotsdel, Arizona, and later attended the University of Reges in Denver, where she played basketball in the NCAA for two years.

Kerk has completed its university studies at Arizona State University, and obtained double grades in political science and international relations. She later obtained a master’s degree in jurisprudence in American legal studies from Liberty University in 2017. According to its websiteAnd she is currently following a doctorate degree in Bible studies from the same institution.

Kirk also immersed in the world of beauty competitions since her childhood – to return the beautiful to society, I told Arizona Fuhails in 2012. ” “When I learned that through competition, I could address more people, and more of my forces, I knew it was an opportunity to make a greater impact.”

Kirk was crowned Miss Arizona, USA, in November 2012, on her twenty -third birthday. Arizona continued to represent the Miss USA competition that year, but she failed to put it.

Flue faith and fashion

The academic degrees of Kirk and a beauty competition formed a similar approach to business, which focuses on her Christian faith. Like her husband Charlie, Erika established her own organization when she was eighteen: daily heroes other than you, who was designed to promote and support unrecognized charitable institutions.

In 2018, Kirk launched Street fashion advertisementIt is a belief -based clothing company that emphasizes American manufacturing. “In the announcement, we believe that honoring God means honoring the work of sincere hands,” says the company’s website. The clothing line works in conjunction with Biblein365The Erika Kirk Ministry program was created in 2016 challenging the participants to read the Bible in one year.

Kirk also hosts “Mid Week” podcastsIt describes it as a chain that focuses on biblical leadership. According to what was reported as a real estate worker with the Korkuran Group in New York City; The Kurkuran Group did not respond immediately luckRequest to comment.

Charlie meeting

In the Instagram postErika said that she met Charlie Kerk in 2018 during what was initially supposed to be a job interview. Sit BicBurger joint in New York City, and a “deep” conversation took place on “theology, philosophy and politics, and in the end, I stopped me, and looked at me and said:” I will go to your appointment. ”

in Instagram postAfter the death of Charlie, Erika attached a video of Charlie talking to their daughter about how they met. “I started as a job interview … Then I realized that the mother was beautiful, smart, elegant and semi -Christ, and so I said,” I forgot this job interview. I want your dating. ”

Erika and Charlie married on May 8, 2021, at an intimate ceremony in Scotsdel. They have two young childrenA daughter born in August 2022 and a son born in May 2024. The family has carefully protecting the privacy of their children, and their names publicly did not resist or display their faces on social media.

He took his head at the turning point

Since the assassination of Charlie Kerk, Turning Point Usa says Tens of thousands of students from students across the country have received to start classes or join those existing. “If you think my husband’s mission was strong before, you have no idea what I just launched in this entire country, and this world,” Kirk said in her speech Two days after the shooting. “The screams of this widow will hesitate all over the world like the cry of the battle.”

At the service of her husband’s souvenir on Sunday in Arizona-which President Donald Trump and Vice President J. “This young man, forgive,” She saidWhich leads to standing applause from the crowd. “The answer to hatred is not hatred.”

Erika Kirk’s date comes at a critical time for Turning Point Usa, which includes 450 employees, millions of financing, and there are 3500 universities across the United States, According to its website. After playing an important role in the last electoral session in mobilizing young voters, Kirk is now assigned to maintain the organization’s momentum with the balance of its other commercial projects, including the brand of clothes and podcasts, as well as its two children.

You can see Erika Kirk’s speech from Charlie Kerk memorial below:

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