US President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team has appointed Indian-American Vedant Patel as the Assistant President Secretary. The announcement was made by the Biden-Harris transition team.
According to a post on the team’s website, Patel previously served as Regional Communications Director on the Biden-Harris Campaign. During Biden’s primary campaign, Patel served as the Nevada and Western Primary-States Communications Director.
Born in India and raised in California, Patel is a graduate of the University of California-Riverside and the University of Florida. In response to the appointment, Patel tweeted late Friday night: “I took the leap with Joe Biden when he announced because I believed in his vision for what this country could be.” Patel joins a long list of Indian-American tapped to be a part of the Biden-Harris administration.