She worked as a media relations consultant on Fitz's campaign. Olivia seems to have been mentored both by Cyrus Beene and Verna Thornton, molding her into who she is today. Believed to be an engine failure, Olivia believed that her mother died in the plane crash. When Olivia was twelve years old, her mother " Maya" was on board Flight 522, en route to London when it went down. Jake was released because of the deal and they started having Sunday dinners again. She made a deal with him to resume Sunday dinners if he released Jake. Years later, when Jake was thrown into the hole because of disobeying an order from Rowan, Olivia wanted her father to release Jake from the hole. After Edison was in a car accident that Eli arranged, Olivia stopped having dinners with him altogether. But she returned for a few more dinners and introduced Eli to Edison Davis, her fiancé. They briefly stopped having dinners when Olivia learned what her father really did for a living. In 2006, Olivia had weekly Sunday dinners with her father, Eli Pope, she agreed to do dinners with him so he'd pay for her law school tuition. She later quit the job and founded her own firm as a crisis manager. She went to boarding school, then Law school, and finally, got a job working on Fitz's presidential campaign. After her mother's death, she never returned to her family's home. She was made to believe that her mother died in a plane crash when she was twelve years old. She moved on to Georgetown Law where she met Cyrus for the first time. She then attended Princeton where she received her undergraduate degree in Political Science. Olivia attended all of the best boarding schools: Saint Anne's & Surval Montreux. Olivia Carolyn Pope was raised by her parents Maya Lewis & Eli Pope (aka Rowan Pope). 10.4 Franklin Russell - (Olivia and Franklin).This is particularly embodied by her forbidden love affair with Fitz otherwise known as Fitzgerald Grant, the President of the United States. Olivia takes on the biggest scandals of the era, all the while trying to hide the fact that she's one of the key players at the center of it all. They come to her at their lowest moment, on the worst day of their lives. She doesn't just fix problems, she fixes people. A title earned first by getting an underdog candidate elected President, she's kept it up by being the invisible hand behind problems that seem to disappear as quickly as they came.
She was the Chief of Staff of President Mellie Grant before her resignation and Command of B613 before it was dismantled. She later quit the job and founded her own consulting firm Olivia Pope & Associates, which is now renamed "Quinn Perkins and Associates" after being given to Quinn.
Olivia Carolyn Pope worked at the White House as a communications director.