John David Podesta Jr. is an American political consultant who served as Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy from 2024 to 2025,having previously served as the Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation from 2022 to 2024. Podesta previously served as White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001 and counselor to President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2015. Before that,he served in the Clinton administration as White House staff secretary from 1993 to 1995 and White House deputy chief of staff for operations from 1997 to 1998.
Susan Ellen "Zoe" Lofgren is an American politician and lawyer serving as a U.S. representative from California. A member of the Democratic Party,Lofgren is in her 15th term in Congress,having been first elected in 1994. Lofgren has long served on the House Judiciary Committee,and chaired the House Administration Committee in the 116th and 117th Congresses.
Ronald Alan Klain is an American attorney,political consultant,and former lobbyist who served as White House chief of staff under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2023.
Counselor to the President is a title used by high-ranking political advisors to the president of the United States and senior members of the White House Office.
Michael Alexander Strautmanis is an American lawyer and political organizer who served as chief of staff to Valerie Jarrett in the White House Office of Public Engagement during the Presidency of Barack Obama. He currently works as Executive Vice President for Public Engagement at the Obama Foundation.
The White House staff position of liaison to the American Jewish community is a role charged with serving as a presidential administration's voice to the community and gathering the community's consensus viewpoint on issues affecting it for the benefit of White House policymakers. It has existed at least as early as the Carter Administration.
Jared Bernstein is an American government official who is the chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers. He is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 2009 to 2011,Bernstein was the chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden in the Obama administration. In 2008,Michael D. Shear described Bernstein as a progressive and "a strong advocate for workers".
Mike Lux is the co-founder and president of Progressive Strategies,L.L.C.,a political consulting firm founded in 1999,focused on strategic political consulting for non-profits,labor unions,PACs and progressive donors.
Steven J. Ricchetti is an American political aide who last served as a Counselor to the President under President Joe Biden. He was the chairman of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. Ricchetti previously served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden during the Obama administration and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations under President Bill Clinton. In between stints in Democratic administrations,Ricchetti has worked as a lobbyist.
Evan Maureen Ryan is an American public servant who served as White House cabinet secretary in the administration of Joe Biden. She previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) in the Obama administration (2013–2017) and was assistant for intergovernmental affairs and public liaison for then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Nicholas Rathod is the founder and former executive director of the State Innovation Exchange,which was created and designed to build progressive power in state legislatures around the country,growing it from an idea to a multimillion dollar organization with more than 30 staff in 3 years. Prior to leading this organization,Rathod served as the director of state campaigns for Mayor Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety,where he oversaw legislative campaigns around gun control. Rathod also worked with Senator Elizabeth Warren to help build and establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and later served as the Bureau’s Assistant Director,in charge of Intergovernmental and International Affairs.
Pramila Jayapal is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Washington's 7th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,she represents most of Seattle,as well as some suburban areas of King County. Jayapal represented the 37th legislative district in the Washington State Senate from 2015 to 2017. She is the first Indian-American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district's first female member of Congress,she is also the first Asian American to represent Washington at the federal level.
Monique Dorsainvil was the Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs. She previously served as LGBTQ Liaison to the White House.
Julie Chávez Rodriguez is an American political consultant and was the campaign manager for Vice President Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign,transitioning to that role from President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election campaign.
The Biden Foundation was a nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the United States tax code that existed from 2017 to 2019. It was established by then former United States vice president Joe Biden and Jill Biden with the stated mission to "champion progress and prosperity for American families".
Vinay Reddy is an American speechwriter and political advisor serving as the White House Director of Speechwriting. Reddy was Chief Speechwriter to Joe Biden during his second term as Vice President of the United States. After the Obama-Biden administration,Reddy worked as Vice President of Strategic Communications for the National Basketball Association.
Maju Varghese is an American attorney and political advisor who served as director of the White House Military Office in the Biden administration. He assumed office on March 9,2021 and left office January 21,2022.
Lindsay Alexandra Owens is an American economic sociologist and academic who serves as the executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative,a Washington,D.C.–based non-profit public policy think tank. Owens is best known for her academic research of economic recessions in the United States and outspoken public commentary of the role that corporate profiteering plays in inflation. She previously served as a fellow at the liberal think tank Roosevelt Institute.
Aditi Hardikar is an American public official who was the acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management at the United States Department of the Treasury from 2024 to 2025. She was previously Deputy Chief of Staff to Janet Yellen,the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury,the associate director of public engagement in the White House Office of Public Engagement,and the primary liaison to the LGBTQ and AAPI communities during the second term of the Obama administration.
