Mountain Brook native gets national attention as part of young conservative ‘Cruel Kids’ Table’
A 21-year-old from Mountain Brook recently gained national attention after she appeared alongside her sister Mary Louise Howland and other Trump inauguration partygoers on a New York Magazine edition titled “The Cruel Kids’ Table.”
Anna Claire Howland, currently a junior at Southern Methodist University in Texas, started getting attention on X after Barstool’s Jack Mac shared the New York Magazine cover with the caption, “Bottom left is my Roman Empire.”
Several commentors agreed.
“Do we know who that is?” one wrote.
“I’m interested in sliding in her DMs and getting left on read.”
Attempts to reach the Howland sisters were not immediately successful.
Howland is majoring in psychology with a minor in business and has served as president of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority for the last year, according to her LinkedIn.
Friends on her social media and other sorority members often refer to her “Madam President” in the comments.
She plans to attend law school after graduation, according to an Instagram the sorority made last year.
Her family home, a 6,800-square-foot mansion, was featured in Birmingham Home & Garden in November of 2016 and their vacation home was featured in Birmingham Magazine in the summer of 2018.
Her father, Rob Howland, works as a real estate developer in the Birmingham area.
The cover has become a recent source of controversy among conservatives after the event’s host, former University of Alabama student CJ Pearson, said the publication cropped black people out of the photo “to push the media narrative that diverse Republicans don’t exist.”
“It took willful ignorance to ignore the diversity that was present at the event as New York Magazine so clearly did, by … not even reaching out to me,” Pearson told the New York Post.
Elon Musk shared that sentiment on X: