Editing Flavia Colgan (section)

==Family==

The Colemans moved from [[Philadelphia]] to [[Detroit]]. Later, Coleman would become [[General Counsel]] to the [[United States Army]] when his law school roommate, [[Bill Clinton]], was elected president. She is the step-niece of both Lovida Coleman Jr., a former Justice Department lawyer and Deputy Independent council who currently serves on the board of RAND, and Hardin Coleman.

Colgan's father taught in the [[School District of Philadelphia]]. Every weekend she flew from Detroit to Philadelphia to be with him. At age 11, Colgan's mother moved to the [[Dominican Republic]] where they lived in [[Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic|Santo Domingo]].

Returning to Detroit when she was 13, she attended four different high schools. She spent her sophomore high school year in [[Fairfield, Iowa]]. Colgan returned to school in [[Michigan]] for her junior year at [[The Roeper School]] and completed high school at [[The Shipley School]], a private school in [[Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania]].

Admitted to [[Harvard University|Harvard]], she graduated with honors in 1999, earning a degree in [[comparative religion|Comparative Religion]]. She returned to Philadelphia, interning under federal Judge [[Louis Pollak]].

Prior to joining [[MSNBC]] and [[Fox News]], Colgan was a Democratic Party fundraiser and political consultant. Later she served as campaign manager for both [[David Wecht]] for Pennsylvania's Superior Court, and [[Catherine Baker Knoll]] for [[state treasurer]]. She was the first ever woman and youngest Chief of Staff to
Pennsylvania's Lt. Governor and served on Governor Ed Rendell's Senior Staff.

In 2002, she was named to the [[PoliticsPA]] list of "Rising Stars" in Pennsylvania politics.<ref name=risingstars>{{cite web| title =PoliticsPA Rising Stars|work = [[PoliticsPA]]| publisher =The Publius Group| year = 2001| url = http://www.politicspa.com/FEATURES/rising_stars.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021205042819/http://www.politicspa.com/FEATURES/rising_stars.htm|archive-date=2002-12-05}}</ref>