Eugene Kang | |
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Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to the President | |
In office January 20, 2009 –January 20, 2017 | |
Appointed by | Barack Obama |
Personal details | |
Born | Ann Arbor,Michigan |
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater | University of Michigan,Greenhills School |
Eugene Kang (born 1984) was the Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to President Barack Obama. [1]
Eugene Kang is an Ann Arbor native who attended Greenhills School before enrolling at the University of Michigan. At Michigan,Kang made a 2005 bid for the Ann Arbor City Council. [2] He later worked on Senator Amy Klobuchar's (D-Minn.) 2006 campaign. [3] During Obama's Presidential campaign he worked in the political division. [4] A second-generation Korean American, [5] [6] he was also a part of the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders National Leadership Council.
Kang has been described as a "close confidant to President Obama" [7] and has played eleven rounds of golf with the President from the time he took office through 2013. [8]
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