section_path: Early life and education (1997–2019)
section_name: Early life and education (1997–2019)
paragraph_text: Early life and education (1997–2019)
  
  Karoline Claire Leavitt was born on August 24, 1997, in Atkinson, New Hampshire. She was born the fourth and youngest child to Bob and Erin Leavitt. Her family owns an ice cream stand in Atkinson and her father owns a used truck dealership in Plaistow. Leavitt attended Central Catholic High School, a private Catholic school in Lawrence, Massachusetts. She played softball and was named an Eagle-Tribune All-Star in 2014 and 2015. In interviews she has credited her Roman Catholic education as formative for her spirituality and instilling her with certain mores, including faith, family, discipline, the importance of public service, and pro-life values.
  
  Leavitt began attending Saint Anselm College in 2015, where she received a scholarship to play softball and majored in communications and minored in political science. She interned with NBC Sports Boston but later shifted towards political journalism. Leavitt became involved with the New Hampshire Institute of Politics her sophomore year; as the institute's ambassador, she interned for a United States senator and WMUR. By the end of her sophomore year, she had given up softball. Leavitt applied for an internship at Fox News, but later interned as a writer for the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence writing letters and notes on behalf of the president. Leavitt founded Saint Anselm's broadcasting club and wrote for its paper, the Saint Anselm Crier. She later described herself as the "token conservative" on campus, and her writings reflected a conservative viewpoint. Following the first inauguration of Donald Trump, Leavitt praised the "peaceful transfer of power" in the United States. In an opinion piece for the Crier in 2016, she stated that the media was "frankly crooked" and "unjust, unfair, and sometimes just plain old false". Leavitt graduated in 2019, becoming the first person in her immediate family to graduate from college.
  
  Karoline Claire Leavitt was born on August 24, 1997, in Atkinson, New Hampshire. She was born the fourth and youngest child to Bob and Erin Leavitt. Her family owns an ice cream stand in Atkinson and her father owns a used truck dealership in Plaistow. Leavitt attended Central Catholic High School, a private Catholic school in Lawrence, Massachusetts. She played softball and was named an Eagle-Tribune All-Star in 2014 and 2015. In interviews she has credited her Roman Catholic education as formative for her spirituality and instilling her with certain mores, including faith, family, discipline, the importance of public service, and pro-life values.
  
  Leavitt began attending Saint Anselm College in 2015, where she received a scholarship to play softball and majored in communications and minored in political science. She interned with NBC Sports Boston but later shifted towards political journalism. Leavitt became involved with the New Hampshire Institute of Politics her sophomore year; as the institute's ambassador, she interned for a United States senator and WMUR. By the end of her sophomore year, she had given up softball. Leavitt applied for an internship at Fox News, but later interned as a writer for the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence writing letters and notes on behalf of the president. Leavitt founded Saint Anselm's broadcasting club and wrote for its paper, the Saint Anselm Crier. She later described herself as the "token conservative" on campus, and her writings reflected a conservative viewpoint. Following the first inauguration of Donald Trump, Leavitt praised the "peaceful transfer of power" in the United States. In an opinion piece for the Crier in 2016, she stated that the media was "frankly crooked" and "unjust, unfair, and sometimes just plain old false". Leavitt graduated in 2019, becoming the first person in her immediate family to graduate from college.