Two Indian-origin specialists in public service have been appointed by the Biden administration to key positions at AmeriCorps, the federal company for volunteering and repair.
Sonali Nijhawan has been named Director of AmeriCorps State and National, and Sri Preston Kulkarni, 42, was appointed the brand new Chief of External Affairs.
Though having run for Congress twice unsuccessfully in Texas, Kulkarni was definitely seen by the management in Washington.
Kulkarni’s appointment, together with Nijhawan and Dan Kohl, displays ‘the Biden administration’s dedication to various management,’ based on the discharge by AmeriCorps.
In their roles, these leaders will use service to help the administration’s agenda, specializing in 4 of probably the most pressing challenges of our time: COVID-19, financial restoration, racial fairness, and local weather change, the AmeriCorps stated.
Kulkarni misplaced his race for the Texas District 22 seat within the US House of Representatives to former Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls in November because the Democratic nominee in a deeply Republican district.
Kulkarni brings a wide range of expertise in service and public affairs to AmeriCorps, together with 14 years as a overseas service officer with the State Department the place he specialised in public diplomacy and labored in public affairs and worldwide info programmes, finishing excursions in Taiwan, Russia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica and Washington, the assertion stated.
Nijhawan has dedicated her profession to creating leaders and rising nationwide service. Most lately, she developed and served as the manager director of Stockton Service Corps, a six-year, USD 12 million initiative to deal with native wants by AmeriCorps.
Her skilled background additionally contains in depth expertise in training, AmeriCorps stated in a press launch.
Inspired by the scholars, households, and AmeriCorps neighborhood she met, she went on to assist discovered City Year Sacramento and launch the organisation’s twenty second web site with 50 new AmeriCorps members.
Nijhawan additionally served because the California director of Education Pioneers the place she recruited, positioned, and supported managers in city faculty programs and training nonprofits, empowering folks to problem the established order of our public training system.
She earned a bachelor’s in training and psychology from Marquette University and a grasp’s in social work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
