advisor to the Energy Secretary, Coates was based in Saudi Arabia as Washington struggled to deal with a global oil price crash threatening U.S. energy producers during the COVID-19 pandemic. In December 2020, Coates was appointed to run the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. In January 2021, she was fired from the position by the acting CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media, Kelu Chao. Personal life Coates lives with her husband, George G. H. Coates Jr., a wine dealer and chair of the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, with their two children in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. They married while she was a student at the University of Pennsylvania. References 21st-century American non-fiction writers American art historians American bloggers American political consultants American women bloggers American women historians Lancaster Country Day School alumni Living people Ted Cruz Trinity College (Connecticut) alumni Trump administration personnel United States National Security Council staffers University of Pennsylvania alumni Williams College alumni Women art historians Year of birth missing (living people) United States Deputy National Security Advisors 21st-century American women writers