Charlie kirk widow, Erika kirk, featured in 100 most influential people of world

US conservative activist’s Charlie kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, has been featured among 100 most influential people of the world.

Time magazine’s list of “The World’s Most Influential Rising Stars” features Turning point USA’s new CEO among its 100 honourees on Tuesday September 30, 2025.

Moreover, the 36-year-old TPUSA CEO, was praised by the magazine for sharing the most powerful "message of forgiveness and love" on her husband Charlie Kirk’s memorial following his assassination.

Few would have faulted Erika Kirk if she had stood before tens of thousands at her husband’s memorial and demanded retribution. Instead, 11 days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at a university, his 36-year-old widow, offered something rare in today’s politics: "forgiveness”, wrote Times.

Kirk’s widow emerged as an influential voice for that same audience. With his death, the Turning Point USA board named her as CEO.

“Every part of our work will become greater,” she vowed. Now raising two young children without her husband, what Erika Kirk models to America’s political leadership is the strength of resilience and grace.

Time emphasized that Erika Kirk, who is now raising two children alone, models the "strength of resilience and grace" to America's political leadership.

“The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the Gospel is love and always love,” Erika kirk.

"Her words may frame the future of the organization her husband launched as a teen and built into a political powerhouse mobilizing young conservatives across the country. Along the way, Erika Kirk emerged as an influential voice for that same audience," the magazine added.

The prestigious magazine also appreciated Erika’s powerful influence on masses at large.

Just after the murder of US Conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, his widow, Erika Kirk, the organization’s new chief executive, convened a senior staff meeting at the group’s Phoenix headquarters to discuss its future.

“A murderer tried to silence my husband,” she told them by video conference from her home in Scottsdale, Arizona, according to two of the attendees, adding, “I won’t let that happen.”

Along the way Erika delivered a clear message that the show would go on at Turning Point USA and she would be taking Charlie Kirk’s visions ahead.