Fifield, 40, graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Language and Literature from Auburn University at Montgomery in Alabama. She has spent more than a decade working in Washington, D.C., in a range of policy and communications roles.

In 2023, she briefly served as a digital marketing director for Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley for two months. Haley, the former South Carolina governor, ran for president against Donald Trump in the 2024 electionbefore dropping out in March.

Fifield was the digital marketing director for Stand for America, an advocacy group founded by Haley that “promotes freedom at home and strength abroad.”

Her longest stint, according to her LinkedIn, was at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that later authored Project 2025, a conservative playbook for the Trump administration. She served as a social media manager at the think tank for over six years, from September 2015 to April 2022.

Prior to that, she worked at another think tank, the American Action Forum, which identifies as a “center-right think tank” focused on domestic economy policy.

Fifield was also a co-host of The LadyBrains, a Ricochet podcast alongside other female conservative commentators, which stopped airing in late 2021.