Jean-Pierre’s role in inspiring youth has reached as far as this reporter’s 17-year-old daughter, an aspiring writer, who insisted on asking Jean-Pierre about her experience as a Black woman “giv[ing] hope to young Black girls like me, seeing you in such a high role.” Asked how her experience has been, Jean-Pierre was honest and inspiring.  She admitted that her job has “been up and down” with “some really, really hard days,” but overall, Jean-Pierre said that her job “has been certainly the most amazing experience that I have ever, ever had in my life.”

Jean-Pierre, giving hope to a young Black woman at the beginning of her career path, then said, “This is why I wake up every morning. Yes, I speak for the president. Yes, I have to do hard things every every day … but the inspiration part is so important.”

Noting that she had no idea what a press secretary was when she was younger, Jean-Pierre is excited that youth today know about this role through her.

“And I think I like to think me being in this role has opened up this kind of career or this possibility to young people who now know that I exist in this role, and what this role now is.”

Jean-Pierre said she is not close to done with her important work. “I’ll continue to be in this job as long as I can, as long as possible, as long as the president wants me and needs me,” she said. Yet she already has a sense of what she’d like her legacy to be. “I want to be remembered as someone who not only gave it all at the podium and represented the president in the best way that I possibly could, but also hopefully the American people felt like I represented them well.”