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ROHINI LAKSHMI KOSOGLU – Chief of Staff of VP Candidate Kamala Harris’ is Sri Lankan-American – By Upali Obeyesekere Photo Source: Economy Next  On 17 December 2018, Senator Kamala Harris made a key staffing change ahead of the holiday season in which she will be mulling a decision on a presidential run. Harris announced Rohini Kosoglu as her new chief of staff.  Kosoglu, who is in her early thirties is a second-generation Sri Lankan-American, born in New Jersey. Kosoglu received a B.A. in English with Honors from the University of Michigan and a Masters in Legislative Affairs from George Washington University. She currently resides in the Washington D.C. area with her husband and three sons. Kosoglu enters the position as the only Asian-American woman currently serving as a U.S. senator’s chief of staff — and she tells Bustle that she’s optimistic about Congress becoming more diverse in 2019. She is ...

Aug 14, 2020 Posted by In Articles, Upali Obeyesekere Tagged , , , Comments 0
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Dreams from her mother: How Shyamala Gopalan prepared Kamala Harris for the White House – By Sunil Adam Shyamala Gopalan Harris, center, with her daughters Kamala and Maya. Source:India Abroad Kamala Devi Harris, who announced her candidacy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, has a long road to travel in her bid to oust Donald Trump from the White House. First, she has to overcome a posse of heavy weights in the Democratic Party to be the nominee — there are a number of declared and potential candidates with greater name recognition and expansive resumes than the freshman Senator from California. After that, as a petite brown-black woman, she has to confront an imposing battering ram of a man who is not only skilled at sucking every ounce of oxygen on any given platform, but who is also betting on the riding, again, the crest of paranoia about the loss ...

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