Dimple Chaudhary
Dimple Chaudhary joins EPA after serving as Deputy Litigation Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Her work included litigation and advocacy to protect communities from drinking water contamination and exposure to toxics. Dimple was lead counsel for community groups in Flint, Michigan, in a case brought to address lead contamination in the city’s drinking […]
Tarun Chhabra
Tarun Chhabra was appointed to serve as Senior Director for Technology and National Security. He was a Senior Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). Tarun is also a fellow with the Brookings Institution, where he co-directs an initiative on China’s growing global influence. Tarun served on the White House National Security […]
Parag Chitnis
Acting Director Parag Chitnis is a key official of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Parag was appointed in July 2020. He leads strategic oversight and implementation of NIFA’s programs, which invest $1.75 billion for research and extension activities in food and agricultural sciences. Before his current appointment, Parag was NIFA’s Associate […]
Rachit Choksi
Rachit Choksi has been appointed as Director for Oversight at the Office of the Secretary in the Department of Commerce. He had previously served as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, where he leads investigations into civil and criminal wrongdoing in the private and public sectors. Prior to this role, he served […]
Rohit Chopra
Rohit Chopra serves as the head Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. He joined the Biden administration as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in January 2021. Chopra earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of […]
Chiraag Bains
Chiraag Bains was Director of Legal Strategies at Demos, a think tank that powers the movement for a just, inclusive, multiracial democracy. He was previously a senior fellow at Harvard Law School’s Criminal Justice Policy Program and a Leadership in Government fellow with the Open Society Foundations. He served as a federal prosecutor and then […]
Harin Contractor
Harin J. Contractor is a senior policy advisor on the White House National Economic Council. He is also the co-Chair of the Washington Leadership Program, a leadership development non-profit for South Asian American college students. Harin was previously the Director of Workforce Policy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and former Economic […]
Sharmistha Das
Sharmistha Das has been appointed to serve as Deputy General Counsel at the Department of Homeland Security.
Tanya Das
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 […]
Rush Doshi
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 […]
Trina Dutta
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 […]
Sameera Fazili
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 […]
Anjali J. Forber-Pratt
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 […]
Radhika Fox
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 […]
Pritesh Gandhi
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 […]
Atul Gawande
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 […]
Michael C. George
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 […]
Aditi Gorur
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 […]
Mili Gosar
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 […]
Vanita Gupta
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 […]
