EMMETT BELIVEAU Beliveau is a former attorney at Patton Boggs and son of prominent Maine attorney and Democrat Severin Beliveau. The thirty-one-year-old worked as Obama’s director of advance during his campaign and was chosen as executive director of the Presidential Inaugural Committee.
MARVIN NICHOLSON
ELLEN MORAN
Once the personal aide to Sen. Kerry during his 2004 presidential campaign, Nicholson planned Obama’s campaign travels from coast to coast and venue to venue as his trip director. Standing at 6feet-8-inches, he accidentally left his suitcase – and the staff ’s birthday present for Obama – in the back of a Chicago taxi in August 2008.
Moran will serve as White House communications director, where she will play an integral role in crafting the administration’s carefully controlled message. Her résumé includes her most recent role as executive director of Emily’s List, and is stacked with political gigs at the DNC, DCCC, and several campaigns.
JAY CARNEY Biden’s director of communications recently left one of the District’s most prestigious journalism gigs, as chief of the Washington bureau of Time magazine, to join the administration. Carney, a Yale grad, had previously served as bureau chief in Moscow and Miami, but this will be his first time on the other side of the podium.
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“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
ALYSSA MASTROMONACO The president’s director of scheduling and advance will make every official trip a reality, with the help of her team. Mastromonaco joined Obama’s PAC in 2005, is a former Kerry campaign director of scheduling and served as press secretary for Rep. Rick Boucher of Virginia.
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BILL BURTON
JEN PSAKI
JON FAVREAU
Psaki served as Obama’s spokeswoman on the campaign trail and transition team, and will assume a role on the White House communications team. Previously deputy communications director for Kerry’s presidential campaign in Iowa, she has also served as press secretary for the Kerry, Heinz and Edwards children.
The pen behind Obama’s famed victory speech in Iowa, this wünderkind was appointed his chief speechwriter at the ripe age of 27. To compete (and triumph) over the big boys, “Favs” ate Bobby Kennedy’s speeches for breakfast, and leads a team of talented young writers into the West Wing.
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Burton cut his political teeth working with Dick Gephardt and John Kerry, and joined Obama after directing communications for the DCCC. This multi-tasker managed to tie the knot with fellow politico Laura Capps, Senator Ted Kennedy’s former communications director, during an election year.
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