Tina Flournoy, who currently serves as former US President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, was chosen to be Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ chief of staff, according to a source.
Flournoy will join at least two other women of color who hold senior positions in Harris’s office: Symone Sanders, senior spokesperson for the vice president-elect, and Ashley Etienne, Harris’ communications director, CNN reported.
Prior to her current position with Clinton, Flournoy served as Clinton’s aide for public policy in the American Federation of Teachers, a union that represents 1.7 million members, according to her Georgetown University biography. He led the group’s work in areas including its policy, mobilization, human rights and community outreach departments.
According to CNN, Flournoy has held various positions in the Democratic Party, including as Senior Advisor to then-Democratic National Convention Chairman Howard Dean in 2005. She was roving chief of staff to Democratic vice presidential candidate in 2000, Senator Joseph Lieberman, director. of finance for the 2000 presidential campaign of then Vice President Al Gore and deputy campaign manager in the Clinton and Gore Office of Presidential Transition in 1992 and in the Office of Presidential Personnel in the White House.
Last month, President-elect Joe Biden appointed an all-female White House communications team and elected former State Department spokesperson for the Barack Obama administration, Jen Psaki, as his secretary. White House press release, reported the Biden-Harris transition team that made the announcement.
Biden was projected as the winner of the US presidential election ever since he secured the state of Pennsylvania to push it past the required 270-vote electoral college mark, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump.
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