Kurt Michael Campbell is an American diplomat and businessman who served as the United States deputy secretary of state from 2024 to 2025. He previously served as deputy assistant advisor to President Biden and National Security Council coordinator for the Indo-Pacific from 2021 to 2024. In this capacity,Campbell had been referred to as the Biden administration's "Asia coordinator" or "Asia czar"—chief architect of Joe Biden's Asia strategy.
Jennifer Rene Psaki is an American television political analyst and former government official. A political advisor who served under both the Obama and Biden administrations,she served the Biden administration as the 34th White House press secretary until May 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served in the Obama administration as the White House deputy press secretary (2009);the White House deputy communications director (2009–2011);the spokesperson for the United States Department of State (2013–2015);and the White House communications director (2015–2017). Psaki was a political contributor for CNN from 2017 to 2020. As of March 2023,she hosts the talk show Inside with Jen Psaki on MSNBC.
Brooke D. Anderson is an American diplomat who served as a Deputy U.S. ambassador at the United Nations,as Chief of Staff and Counselor for the White House National Security Council,and as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and the Under Secretary for Political Affairs on the Iran Nuclear Negotiations. She has served as a trusted advisor to U.S. presidents,Cabinet Secretaries,members of Congress,presidential candidates,philanthropists and business leaders.
Donald Lu is a United States diplomat who had served as Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs. He previously served as both the United States Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan from 2018 to 2021 and the United States Ambassador to Albania from 2015 to 2018.
Brett Holden McGurk is an American diplomat,attorney,and academic who served in senior national security positions under presidents George W. Bush,Barack Obama,Donald Trump,and Joe Biden. He served as deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa. He most recently led negotiations between the United States,Israel,Egypt,and Qatar to establish a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
John F. Kirby is a retired United States Navy rear admiral who served as White House National Security Communications Advisor from 2022 to 2025. He previously served in the Biden administration as Pentagon Press Secretary and Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs from 2021 to 2022. He worked as a military and diplomatic analyst for CNN from 2017 to 2021. He served in the Obama administration as Pentagon Press Secretary from 2013 to 2015 and as the spokesperson for the United States Department of State and Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 2015 to 2017.
Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall is an American national security and energy leader,public servant,educator,and author who served as the 11th United States Homeland Security Advisor in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2025. She previously served in both the Clinton and Obama administrations and held appointments at academic institutions and think tanks.
Randy William Berry is an American diplomat who had served the United States ambassador to Namibia. He has previously served as the United States ambassador to Nepal and the first U.S. special envoy for the human rights of LGBTI persons.
Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders is an American politician serving as the 47th governor of Arkansas since 2023. Sanders is the daughter of Mike Huckabee,who served from 1996 to 2007 as Arkansas's 44th governor. A member of the Republican Party,she was the 31st White House press secretary,serving under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019. Sanders was the third woman to be White House press secretary. She also served as a senior advisor on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Sanders became the Republican nominee in the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election and won,defeating Democratic nominee Chris Jones.
Edward Price is an American diplomat,political advisor and former intelligence officer who served as the deputy to the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2024 to 2025.[†] In this role,he is considered a Deputy Cabinet Secretary and is a sitting member of the National Security Council's Deputies Committee. He previously served as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State from 2023 to 2024 and the Spokesperson for the United States Department of State from 2021 to 2023. He worked at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2006 until 2017.
Karine Jean-Pierre is a French-American political advisor who served as the White House press secretary from May 2022 to January 2025,and a senior advisor to President Joe Biden since October 2024. She is the first black person and the first openly LGBTQ person to serve in the position of White House press secretary. Previously,she served as the deputy press secretary to her predecessor Jen Psaki from 2021 to 2022 and as the chief of staff for U.S. Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris during the 2020 presidential campaign.
National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM) takes place in April. It celebrates the Arab American heritage and culture and pays tribute to the contributions of Arab Americans and Arabic-speaking Americans.
Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel is an American lawyer and former federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice. Previously,he served as Chief of Staff to the acting U.S. secretary of defense Christopher C. Miller,and senior advisor to the acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell,both during the first presidency of Donald Trump. In November 2024,President-elect Trump nominated Patel to succeed Christopher A. Wray as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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 presidential transition of Joe Biden began on November 7,2020,and ended on January 20,2021. Unlike previous presidential transitions,which normally take place during the roughly 10-week period between the election in the first week of November and the inauguration on January 20,Biden's presidential transition was shortened somewhat because the General Services Administration under the outgoing first Trump administration did not recognize Biden as the "apparent winner" until November 23.
Sabrina Singh is an American administrator who served as the Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary in the Department of Defense from April 2022 to January 2025. Singh previously served as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary for Vice President Kamala Harris in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2022.
The social policy of the Joe Biden administration is intended to improve racial equity,increase access to safe and legal abortions,tighten restrictions on gun sales,among other aims. A number of policies aim to reverse the former policies of President Donald Trump,including the "Muslim" travel ban and loosened anti-discriminatory policies relating to LGBT people.
In April 2021,more than three hours of audiotape was leaked from a seven-hour interview between economist Saeed Leylaz and Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The taped conversation was connected to an oral history project,titled "In the Islamic Republic,the military field rules," that documents the work of then-president Hassan Rouhani and his government. The tape was obtained by the London-based news channel Iran International and publicized by The New York Times. Zarif did not dispute the authenticity of the leaked tape,but questioned the motive. Iran International noted that Zarif's claim was "not very credible."
Matthew Alan Miller is an American public official who served as Spokesperson for the United States Department of State from 2023 to 2025. A longtime Democratic Party communications operative,he has previously served in the Obama administration and for multiple Democratic presidential campaigns.
