Priya Ganapati
Washington Welcome
Record Number of Asian Americans in White House
There are more Asian American officials in the highest ranks of the Obama administration than in any other presidency, including three of the 15 members of the president’s Cabinet.
Washington Welcome Record Number of Asian Americans in White House
Priya Ganapati - December 30, 2009
Hope. Change.
As the platform on which Barack Obama built his campaign, the two words came to mean different things for different communities.
For a nation weary of war, they held the possibility of a new direction. For African Americans, they offered the historic possibility of seeing one of their own lead the nation.