President-elect Joe Biden has enlisted mainly women for his economics and communications team, including Jennifer Psaki as his White House press secretary.
Ms Psaki was White House Communications Director from 2015 through to 2017, and had previously been a spokesperson for the Department of State. She held various press and communications roles in the Obama White House and has also been a CNN contributor.
The role of White House press secretary is one of the most high-profile and demanding jobs in the White House, and Ms Psaki emerged as a frontrunner for the job late in the process, according to a source of Politico.
Minyon Moore, a member of the Biden-Harris advisory board, said that when Ms Psaki steps to the mic, she brings a sense of “gravitas… transparency and honesty, and even a sense of comfort.”
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She and President Elect Biden had a chance to discuss the job last Tuesday when she was in Wilmington, Del., for the public rollout of his national security team. Ms Psaki’s background is from Messinia according to ellines.gr, and she is a mother of two who just turned 40 yesterday.
President Elect Biden is also expected to nominate Neera Tanden, the chief executive of the left-leaning Center for American Progress, as director of the influential Office of Management and Budget, and Princeton University labor economist Cecilia Rouse as chair of the three-member Council of Economic Advisers. Ms Tanden is of Indian heritage and Ms Rouse is African American, and would be the first woman of color to chair the council.