Biden’s former senior adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms rejoining White Home in new function

Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will probably be returning to the White Home in a brand new function as a member of the President’s Export Council.

Bottoms served as director of the Workplace of Public Engagement and senior adviser to President Biden from June 2022 till April of this yr. 

She introduced Friday on social media that she is “honored” to be rejoining the White Home.

The President’s Export Council serves because the “principal nationwide advisory committee on worldwide commerce. 

The Council advises the President of presidency insurance policies and packages that have an effect on US commerce efficiency; promotes export growth; and supplies a discussion board for discussing and resolving trade-related issues among the many enterprise, industrial, agricultural, labor, and authorities sectors,” based on the White Home.

Bottoms, a Democrat, served because the mayor of Atlanta from 2018 to 2022, however determined to not search re-election.

Although she was initially employed by CNN as a political commentator after her departure from the mayor’s workplace, she introduced she would be part of Biden’s group starting in June 2022.

Former Columbia, South Carolina, mayor Stephen Benjamin changed Bottoms within the White Home after she formally stepped down from her earlier function on April 1.

Bottoms will succeed Cedric Richmond on the President’s Export Council – the identical man she changed as White Home Workplace of Public Engagement Director and Senior Advisor to the president.

Bottoms was amongst plenty of appointments introduced by the Biden administration on Friday.

When asserting her function, the White Home described Bottoms as a “visionary chief” who headed the transformation of the Workplace of Public Engagement.

“By means of crafting efficient engagement methods and advising the president on issues regarding varied stakeholders, Bottoms helped be sure that the varied voices of the American public had been heard and considerations translated into significant motion by the administration,” the White Home mentioned in an announcement.

“Serving as mayor of Atlanta within the midst of a worldwide pandemic and racial justice motion, Bottoms proved herself to be a extremely revered chief and voice,” the assertion continued. “Throughout one of many worst financial downturns in historical past, Bottoms led her administration in proactively coping with the influence of the COVID-19, efficiently delivering 4 years of balanced budgets with out resorting to property tax will increase, layoffs, or furloughs of Metropolis staff.”