Gautam Raghavan

Raghavan was the associate director of the Office of Public Liaison under President Obama, acting as a liaison to both the LGBT and Asian American and Pacific Islander communities from 2011 to 2017.^[4]

He has also worked for the Progressive Majority, the 2008 Obama campaign, the Democratic National Committee,^[5] the Gill Foundation,^[6] and the U.S. Department of Defense as the outreach lead for its "Don't Ask, Don’t Tell" Working Group.^[5]

Outside of government, Raghavan has worked as a consultant for progressive organizations including the Biden Foundation^[4] and the Indian American Impact Project, an initiative that supports Indian Americans in politics which he founded in 2016.^[7][8] Raghavan was the editor of West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House, which includes personal accounts by eighteen Obama Administration staffers.^[9]

From December 2018 to July 2020, Raghavan was the chief of staff for Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal.^[10] In June 2020, Biden selected Raghavan to serve on his presidential transition team.^[11]

Raghavan is openly gay. He lives with his husband and daughter in Washington D.C.^[12] He is of Tamil descent.^[13]