Symone D. Sanders (born December 10, 1989) is a Democratic Party political operative and former national press secretary for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign. ^[0]

Sanders grew up in northern Omaha, Nebraska.

Her father (Daniel Sanders) is retired from the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers and her mother, Terri Sanders, is the former executive director of the Great Plains Black History Museum.

Sanders graduated from Creighton University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 2013.

In 2016, Symone Sanders became press secretary for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign.

She was 25 at the time of the election and was deemed by some as the youngest ever press secretary for a presidential campaign.

After the 2016 election, she dismissed the idea of Howard Dean returning as DNC chairman saying, "We don't need white people leading the Democratic party right now."

Sanders also said: "I'm here for the Millennials and the brown folks."

Responding to four black Chicagoans torturing a white man with mental health challenges, cutting him, making him drink toilet water, taunting him for being white and a Trump supporter, and ashing a cigarette on his open wound, she said it was not hate crime if it was motivated by hate for Trump.

Since the campaign, she has been a Democratic strategist and political commentator on CNN.

Sanders was recognized by *Rolling Stone * magazine in their list of "16 Young Americans Shaping the 2016 Election." ^[3]