Erika Kirk has one verified degree and one unverified degree she was awarded after marrying Charlie Kirk, by Kirk’s affiliated university, and who gave the commencement address at her ceremony. I could not find any evidence of her actual grad enrollment, a submitted thesis, or certificate of degree completion while researching for my essay on her rise to power, “The Star-Spangled Tomboy Who Wants Our Kids.” Erika (Frantzve) Kirk was always focused on using religion to get rich and powerful with the help of her parents’ military and surveillance connections.
I appreciate whenever people, especially media sources like Jezebel, point out presumed irony in sociopolitical discourse, but Erika is doing exactly what she wants all other young women to do, so I’m not sure how it’s “ironic.”
Read: “Woman with 2 Degrees Who Married at 32 & Had Kids at 34 Warns Women Not to be Career-Driven” by Lauren Tousignant (6 Dec. 2025)
Erika gave up her Catholic faith to marry Charlie. She chose power over her genuine spiritual connection to something she described as being integral to her development and relationships, especially with god and her mother. She gave up basketball and being a “tomboy” (her words) so she could be groomed into a pageant winner and ideal wife for the next Falwell legacy.
All of Erika (Frantzve) Kirk’s business interests feed money back into Liberty University and the Proclaim Ministries network of pastors (several of whom are in my hometown here in San Diego). She chose wealth, power, and influence. She tells audiences exactly what she wants and then works within the limits of Christian patriarchy to get it—and so far, Erika’s gotten everything she’s set sights on.
That is the example she wants young girls and women to follow. There is no irony.
Erika has until next September to find a replacement husband because women cannot remain unmarried while in positions of influence within this religious movement. The marriage, like her first, will be a business deal between Liberty University and whomever they believe will best carry on Charlie/FalKirk/TPUSA’s mission to infiltrate the education system to begin mass child recruitment and kidnapping via government and social services interventions. My money is on J.D. Vance.
All spruikers are grifters to some extent, but repeatedly dismissing major christofascist players like Erika Kirk teaches people to ignore threats to their safety rather than address or eradicate the cause. What makes these people dangerous is that they do believe what they preach and they want all of us to submit. They believe we are slaves to Jesus/God and it is their duty to bring us back to the fold.