Among the seven communications staffers Biden named Sunday are:
Kate Bedingfield: The communications director for Biden’s campaign will take on the same role in the White House. Bedingfield was also communications director for Biden when he was vice president.
Jen Psaki: Psaki will be the White House press secretary. She’s another veteran of the Obama administration, and her roles there included White House communications director. Psaki [pronounced “saki”] currently oversees the confirmation efforts of Biden’s nominees.
Pili Tobar, who worked on Biden’s campaign and previously worked as deputy director of the immigration reform advocacy group America’s Voice, will be the White House deputy communications director.
Ashley Etienne, Harris’ communications director; Symone Sanders, senior advisor and chief spokesperson for Harris
Karine Jean-Pierre, who served as chief of staff to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris during the campaign, will be the principal deputy press secretary. She previously worked for the advocacy group MoveOn.org.
Antony Blinken, Biden’s choice for secretary of State, co-founded the firm, and Avril Haines, his nominee for director of national intelligence, is a former principal there.
And Elizabeth Alexander, who worked for Biden while he was in the Senate before serving as his press secretary while he was vice president, will be Jill Biden’s communications director. Alexander also worked on the Biden campaign.
Psaki noted on Twitter that six of the seven women named to communications jobs Sunday are moms of young children.
