Neera Tanden
| Neera Tanden | |
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| Born |
September 10, 1970 Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education |
University of California, Los Angeles (BA) Yale University (JD) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Ben Edwards |
| Children | 2 |
Neera Tanden (born September 10, 1970) is an American domestic policy adviser and the President of the Center for American Progress, a public policy research and advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. She has served in this role since November 2011, before that serving as Chief Operating Officer from 2010 and in earlier roles.
She grew up in Bedford, Massachusetts, earning degrees from UCLA and a law degree from Yale University. Active in Democratic Party politics since working on Governor Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign, Tanden more recently has worked for Hillary Clinton on her senatorial campaign in New York. She served as Clinton's policy director for her bid for the presidency in 2008. Tanden later served as policy director for Barack Obama. She was senior adviser to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, working to gain passage of healthcare legislation.
Neera Tanden was born in 1970 in Bedford, Massachusetts, to immigrant parents from India. She has a brother, Raj. Her parents divorced when she was five, after which Tanden's mother was on welfare for nearly two years before obtaining a job as a travel agent.
Tanden graduated from UCLA in 1992, and received a degree from Yale Law School in 1996. She became involved in politics at an early age, first working on the presidential campaign of Governor Michael Dukakis.
At UCLA, Tanden met Ben Edwards, an artist, whom she later married. They have two children.
After graduating from Yale Law School, Tanden moved to Washington, DC, where she has worked on domestic policy on Capitol Hill, in think tanks, and for senatorial and Democratic presidential campaigns. She has also written on Indian-American issues.
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