ILLINOIS: Illinois-based Mala Adiga has been appointed as First Lady Jill Biden's policy advisor by the newly elected President, Joe Biden. Ms. Adiga has several feathers in her hat and this is another one.
Mala Adiga has graduated from Grinnell College, the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and the University of Chicago Law School. She went on to work as a clerk in a federal and then in a law firm post her graduation.
In 2008, Ms. Adiga joined Obama administration as a counsel to the associate attorney general. During the rule of Obama, she was served as the deputy assistant secretary of state for Academic Programs at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, in the Secretary of State's Office of Global Women's Issues as chief of staff and senior advisor to the Ambassador-at-Large, as well as director for human rights on the National Security Staff.
Ms. Mala Adiga has previously served as a senior advisor to Jill Biden and a senior policy advisor on the Biden-Kamala Harris campaign. She was also the director for Higher Education and Military Families at the Biden Foundation. Currently, she has been appointed as the policy director for Jill Biden, the First Lady.
Apart from Mala Adiga, three other members have been appointed by Joe Biden as the White House senior staff.
Cathy Russell, Vice-Chair of the Biden-Harris campaign, has been appointed as the director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.
Carlos Elizondo, a Special Assistant to the President and Social Secretary to Vice-President and Dr Jill Biden for all eight years of the Obama-Biden administration, was appointed as the White House Social Secretary.
Louisa Terrell, who currently looks after legislative affairs for the Biden-Harris transition team, will now render services as the director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs in Biden administration.
While announcing the new additions, Joe Biden praised their dedication and said that they will help the States evolve as a more just nation.
