Tanya Das was appointed to serve as the Chief of Staff of the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. She was most recently a Professional Staff Member on the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, where she worked on legislation on a range of issues in clean energy and manufacturing policy.
She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Rush Doshi was appointed as the China Director on the U.S. National Security Council. He was previously the director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative and a fellow in Brookings Foreign Policy. He was also a fellow at Yale Paul Tsai China Center. His research focused on Chinese grand strategy as well as Indo-Pacific security issues. As director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative, Doshi led an effort that acquires, digitizes, and analyzes Mandarin-language open sources and studies Chinese behavior to understand the country’s grand strategy. At the Paul Tsai China Center, Doshi managed a project that seeks to audit and improve U.S.-China crisis management mechanisms.
Doshi was special advisor to the CEO of the Asia Group and an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Previously, Doshi was a member of the Asia Policy Working Group for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, an analyst at the Long Term Strategy Group and Rock Creek Global Advisors, an Arthur Liman Fellow at the Department of State, and a Fulbright Fellow in China. Doshi’s research has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, International Organization, and the Washington Quarterly, among other publications.
Doshi received his doctorate from Harvard University and his bachelor’s from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School with a minor in East Asian Studies. He is proficient in Mandarin.

Senior Advisor Trina Dutta provides policy and guidance on programs to the Office Assistant Secetary to help with the nation’s behavioral health and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) mission. She previously worked for the Department of Behavioral Health in DC, and led system redesign efforts in mental healthcare.
Trina worked for 8 years with SAMHSA focusing on behavioral integration. This included her leading the Primary Bahvioral Health Care Integration program, and SAMHSA’s parternship with CMS on the person-centered health homes program. She also helped establish SAMHSA’s disparity impact statements, which aim to address disparties in access, use and outcomes among traditionally underserved populations.
Trina graduated from The Ohio State University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology and Psychology. She served in the Peace Corps and received a Master of Public Health/ Master of Public Policy dual degree from UC Berkeley.

Sameera Fazili was the director of engagement for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s community and economic development (CED) department. She has spent her career working in domestic and international economic development, with a focus on access to finance and social enterprise. Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed, Fazili served as a senior policy adviser at the White House’s National Economic Council where she covered retirement, consumer finance, and community and economic development. Previously, she worked at the Treasury Department on issues of domestic policy ranging from community development financial institutions (CDFIs) to housing finance to small business finance, and then as a senior adviser to the undersecretary for international affairs where she served as chief of staff.
Before her time in government, Fazili was a clinical lecturer at Yale Law School’s community and economic development clinic, where she helped start a CDFI bank and a local anti-foreclosure initiative, and expanded the clinic’s work to international microfinance. She also worked at ShoreBank, the nation’s first CDFI bank. Her work in finance has spanned consumer, housing, small business, and microfinance.
She received her law degree from Yale Law School and her bachelor of arts in social studies from Harvard College.

Dr. Anjali J. Forber-Pratt has joined Administration for Community Living (ACL) as the director of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR).
A two-time Paralympian and medalist in the sport of wheelchair racing, Dr. Forber-Pratt has dedicated her life to helping others recognize their potential. Globally, she is involved with disability advocacy efforts related to access to employment, education and sports.

Radhika Fox has been nominated by the Biden administration, and confirmed to serve as the Administrator of Water for the Environmental Protection Agency. She works to ensure safe return of wastewater to the environment, the management and protection of surface water, and safe drinking water.
Previously, Fox was the CEO of US Water Alliance, a non-profit that worked towards a sustainable water future. She also served on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission directing the policy and government affairs agenda. She has more than 20 years of experience working in advocacy campaigns and addressing salient water issues in the US.
Fox received her Bachelors degree from Columbia University, and her Masters from the University of California, Berkeley, in city and regional planning.

Dr. Pritesh Gandhi currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Homeland Security, as appointed by President Biden in January 2021. In this role, he serves as the principle advisor to the DHS Secretary, Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD), the FEMA Administrator, and DHS senior leadership on medical and public health issues related to natural disasters, border health, pandemic response, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters.
Dr. Gandhi is a public health trained and board-certified internal medicine specialist. He most recently served as the Associate Chief Medical Officer and Director of Adult Medicine at People’s Community Clinic, an Austin-based federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) which provides care to over 20,000 uninsured and medically underserved Central Texans, 70% of whom live under the federal poverty line. He co-led the COVID-19 response team and under his clinical leadership People’s Community Clinic was recognized by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services as a Gold Tier Health Center Quality Leader— ranking it among the top 10% of public health providers in the Nation. Dr. Gandhi recently served as an affiliate faculty at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Gandhi has worked with working-class and marginalized communities to address social determinants of health and poverty. He is a Fulbright Scholar, Schweitzer Fellow, National Health Service Corps Scholar, and was named a Presidential Leadership Scholar in 2018. Dr. Gandhi completed a dual internal medicine and pediatrics residency at Tulane University in New Orleans and holds a degree in International Relations & Economics from Tufts University where he also completed his MD and MPH.

Atul Gawande is the lead global health development at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). His role includes efforts to prevent child and maternal deaths, curb the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and combat COVID-19 as well as other infectious diseases. He has previously served in government as a senior advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton, and on President Biden’s transition advisory board for COVID-19.
Atul has previously written four New York Times best selling books and has embraced a career as an author. He has additionally been a professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was a founder and chair of Araidne Labs, and of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer. Atul also co-founded CIC Health which operates COVID-19 testing and vaccination nationally.
Atul received his BA from Standford University, his MA from Oxford University, his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Michael was appointed to serve as Policy Advisor to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Michael studied Government and Economics at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2014. He is interested in how innovative policy can be used to improve social mobility, and has explored this through work at the White House National Economic Council and through internships at Social Finance in London and Instiglio in Colombia. In the year after graduation, he worked as a Research Assistant to Professors Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren at the Harvard Department of Economics, before working as Chief of Staff to a new civic enterprise based in Washington DC. Michael studied Inequality at the London School of Economics and Comparative Social Policy at the University of Oxford.

Aditi Gorur was appointed to serve as the Policy Advisor for the US Mission to the UN. Aditi was a Senior Fellow and Director of the Protecting Civilians in Conflict Program at Stimson. Her primary research focus was on preventing and responding to violence against civilians, particularly in the context of peacekeeping operations. Before joining Stimson, Gorur worked with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements in India, the Asia Foundation and the Center for Liberty in the Middle East in Washington, DC, and the Melbourne University Law School in Australia.

Mili Gosar has over a decade of experience in public service, working for the government and on campaigns in leadership roles around the country. Mili was most recently the Regional Voter Protection Director for the Midwest on the Biden-Harris campaign. She started her career in her home state of Texas, where she worked in the Texas Senate and for state and local government. She is a graduate of American University and the University of Houston Law Center.

Vanita Gupta was confirmed by Senate to serve as Associate Attorney General in the current administration April 21st as the Number 3 position in the Justice Department. She also served in the Obama administration as Acting Assistant Attorney General and head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Appointed in October 2014 by President Barack Obama as the chief civil rights prosecutor for the United States, Gupta oversaw a wide range of criminal and civil enforcement efforts to ensure equal justice and protect equal opportunity for all during one of the most consequential periods for the division. Under Gupta’s leadership, the division did critical work in a number of areas, including advancing constitutional policing and criminal justice reform; prosecuting hate crimes and human trafficking; promoting disability rights; protecting the rights of LGBTQ individuals; ensuring voting rights for all; and combating discrimination in education, housing, employment, lending, and religious exercise.
Prior to serving in the current administration, Vanita Gupta was president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 220 national organizations to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States. She also has served as Deputy Legal Director and the Director of the Center for Justice at the American Civil Liberties Union, where she launched the Smart Justice Campaign to end mass incarceration. She joined the ACLU in 2006 as a staff attorney. Gupta began her legal career at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, where she litigated a series of landmark wrongful drug conviction cases in Tulia, Texas. Throughout her career, she has drawn support from a wide range of liberal and conservative activists, as well as law enforcement leaders, for building collaborative support and finding common ground on policing and criminal justice reform.
Vanita graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and received her law degree from New York University School of Law, where she later taught a civil rights litigation clinic for several years.

Ms. Gupta served as the deputy director of the women’s bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor under President Obama. In that role, she worked to advance and improve standards, practices, and opportunities for women in the labor force. She also previously served as senior director of programs for the Women Donors Network (WDN) as well as research director for Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy.
Ms. Gupta has extensive experience in community and labor organizing. She served as research director for SCOPE/AGENDA in Los Angeles, where she helped develop their health care jobs campaign, and as research director for the Living Wage Campaign at the LA Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE). Additionally, Ms. Gupta served as executive director of Institute for Southern Studies and legislative director for the U.S. Student Association
She holds an MPA from Columbia University and a BA in Government from Clark University.

Neha Gupta was appointed as an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel as part of the Biden-Harris Transition. Prior to this, Gupta served as general counsel to various city agencies as a Deputy City Attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office. She also previously clerked for Judge Michael Daly Hawkins of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Richard Seeborg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
She is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School.

Rahul Gupta has been appointed to oversee drug policy strategy as the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. He has previously served under two governors as the West Virginia’s Health Commissioner. He served as the Chief Health Officer and led the state’s opioid crisis response efforts and launched a number of pioneering public health initiatives.
Rahul is a specialist in internal medicine and preventive medicine, and has served as academic faculty in Tennessee and Alabama prior to leading the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department in West Virginia. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Leadership in the School of Public Health at West Virginia University and is visiting faculty and TH Chan Harvard School of Public Health.
Rahul was born in India and grew up in Maryland. He completed medical school at the University of Delhi at age 21, and did his residency at St. Joseph Hospital at Northwestern University. He earned a master’s degree in public health from the University of Alabama-Birmingham and a global master’s of business administration degree from the London School Of Business and Finance.

Sumona Guha has been appointed as Senior Director for South Asia in the White House National Security Counsel.
Formerly, Sumona served as senior vice president at Albright Stonebridge Group. She also previously served in the State Department as a foreign service officer and later, on the Secretary of State’s policy planning staff where she focused on South Asia. She has also served as Senior Adviser to the Special Representative’s Office in Afghanistan and Pakistan. She has had a career spanning the State Department for almost 20 years.
Sumona is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and Georgetown University.

Geeta Rao Gupta is currently Executive Director of the 3D Program for Girls and Women and Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation. She is also a member of the WHO Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for health emergencies. In 2017 she was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and served as co-Chair of the Gender-Based Violence Task Force of the World Bank. From 2011 to 2016, Ms. Rao Gupta served as Deputy Executive Director at UNICEF and from 2010 to 2011 was a senior fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Prior to that, for over a decade, Ms. Rao Gupta was the president of the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW), a non-profit based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to using research to shape international development policies and programs to empower women and girls. Under her leadership, ICRW catalyzed policy and programmatic change for women and children around the globe. Over the course of her career, Ms. Rao Gupta has served on several boards, such as the Global Partnership for Education, GAVI, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the MAC AIDS Fund. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including Harvard University’s 2006 Anne Roe Award and the 2007 Washington Business Journal’s “Women Who Mean Business” Award.
Ms. Rao Gupta earned a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Bangalore University and an M.Phil. and M.A. from the University of Delhi in India.

Geeta Rao Gupta is currently Executive Director of the 3D Program for Girls and Women and Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation. She is also a member of the WHO Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for health emergencies. In 2017 she was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and served as co-Chair of the Gender-Based Violence Task Force of the World Bank. From 2011 to 2016, Ms. Rao Gupta served as Deputy Executive Director at UNICEF and from 2010 to 2011 was a senior fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Prior to that, for over a decade, Ms. Rao Gupta was the president of the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW), a non-profit based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to using research to shape international development policies and programs to empower women and girls. Under her leadership, ICRW catalyzed policy and programmatic change for women and children around the globe. Over the course of her career, Ms. Rao Gupta has served on several boards, such as the Global Partnership for Education, GAVI, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the MAC AIDS Fund. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including Harvard University’s 2006 Anne Roe Award and the 2007 Washington Business Journal’s “Women Who Mean Business” Award.
Ms. Rao Gupta earned a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Bangalore University and an M.Phil. and M.A. from the University of Delhi in India.

Dr. Sejal Hathi is the Senior Policy Advisor for Public Health in The Executive Office of the President, The White House.
Prior to her appointment, she was a resident physician at Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital and an award-winning social entrepreneur dedicated to building better health systems for vulnerable populations globally.
She received her MD/MBA from Stanford and her BS with honors from Yale, and serves on the boards of Indiaspora and The Arena.

Rashad Hussain has been nominated as the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, who is likely to be first Muslim to head US diplomacy for advancing religious liberities. He is also a Director for Partnerships and Global Engagement at the National Security Council. He has previously served as Senior Counsel at the Department of Justice’s National Security Division.
In the Obama Administration, Rashad was serving as a US Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for Strategic Counterrorism Communications, and Deputy Associate White House Counsel. He has worked with multilateral organizations such as the OIC, United Nations, foreign governments and civil society organizations to expand partnerships in education, entrepreneurship, health, international security, science and technology and other areas. Prior to the Obama administration, Rashad served as a judicial law cleark to Damon Keith on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and was also an associate counsel to the Obama-Biden transition project.
Rashad earned his Master’s degrees in Public Administration and Arabic and Islamic Studies from Harvard University. Rashad received his J.D. from Yale Law School.