Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and incumbent vice president of the United States under President Joe Biden. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history,as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served as the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and as a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021.
American Sikhs form the country's sixth-largest religious group. While the U.S. Census does not ask about religion,70,697 Americans declared Sikh as their ethnicity in the 2020 census. In the 2021 Canadian census,194,640 Canadians declared Sikh as their ethnicity while 771,790 Canadians declared Sikh as their religion,indicating that the Sikh American population may be around 280,329,or 0.08% of the total population. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the adult Sikh American population at 78,000 in 2008. The Pew Research Center estimated the Sikh American adult population to be 140,000 and the total population at 200,000 in 2012 while the World Religion Database at Boston University estimated the American Sikh population to be at 280,000 in 2012. Sikh organizations like the Sikh Coalition and American Sikh Congressional Caucus estimate the Sikh American population to be as high as 1,000,000,but do not provide any sources for these figures;500,000 nevertheless remains the most cited Sikh American population size. With 1% of Asian Americans being Sikh,and 90.7% of Sikh Americans being Asian American,the American Sikh population can be estimated at around 200,000-300,000 in 2021. The largest Sikh populations in the U.S. are found in California (52%),New York (11%),and Washington (6%).
Indian Americans are citizens of the United States with ancestry from India. The term Asian Indian is used to avoid confusion with Native Americans in the United States,who are also referred to as "Indians" or "American Indians." With a population of more than 4.4 million,Indian Americans make up approximately 1.35% of the U.S. population and are the largest group of South Asian Americans,the largest Asian-alone group,and the largest group of Asian Americans after Chinese Americans. Indian Americans are the highest-earning ethnic group in the United States.
Jennifer "Jen" Psaki is an American television political analyst and former government official. A political advisor who served under both the Obama and Biden administrations,she served the Biden administration as the 34th White House press secretary until May 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served in the Obama administration as the White House deputy press secretary (2009);the White House deputy communications director (2009–2011);the spokesperson for the United States Department of State (2013–2015);and the White House communications director (2015–2017). Psaki was a political contributor for CNN from 2017 to 2020. As of March 2023,she hosts the talk-show Inside with Jen Psaki,on MSNBC.
Sheila Nix is an American attorney and political strategist who served as Chief of Staff to Jill Biden,the Second Lady of the United States from April 2013 to January 2017.
Shefali Razdan Duggal is an Indian-American political activist and diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to the Netherlands. She was previously appointed by President Barack Obama to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council,which supervises the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,for a term which expired in January 2018.
Symone D. Sanders-Townsend is an American political strategist and political commentator. She served as national press secretary for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders during his 2016 presidential campaign. She left the campaign abruptly in late June 2016,saying "she was not let go and that leaving the campaign was her decision." In October 2016,she was hired to be a Democratic strategist and political commentator by CNN. In April 2019,Symone Sanders joined the 2020 presidential campaign of former vice president Joe Biden as a senior advisor,and after Biden won election,was named chief spokesperson and a senior advisor for Vice President Kamala Harris. On December 2,2021,Sanders announced that she would be resigning from her position by the end of 2021 to return to broadcasting,this time at MSNBC.
Karine Jean-Pierre is an American political advisor who has served as the White House press secretary since May 13,2022. She is the first black person,first black woman,and the first openly LGBT person to serve in the position. Previously,she served as the deputy press secretary to her predecessor Jen Psaki from 2021 to 2022 and as the chief of staff for U.S. Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris during the 2020 presidential campaign.
The 2020 presidential campaign of Kamala Harris,a United States senator from California from January 2017 to 2021,officially began on January 21,2019,with an announcement on Good Morning America. Harris had widely been considered a "high profile" candidate for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries since 2016.
Tyler Joseph"TJ"Ducklo is an American political adviser serving as senior advisor on the Joe Biden 2024 presidential campaign. He previously served as a special assistant to the president and White House junior deputy press secretary for the Biden administration from January 2021 until February 13,2021,when he resigned after threats he made to a reporter came to light. Ducklo previously worked as the national press secretary for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.
Elizabeth Marie Allen is an American political advisor who serves as under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs in the Biden administration. She previously served as assistant secretary of state for global public affairs and as White House deputy communications director during the Obama administration.
#KHive is the hashtag used by an informal online community supporting Kamala Harris,the 49th Vice President of the United States. The hashtag is also a term which is always pronounced and occasionally transcribed as K-Hive,and refers to the wider online community that is not formally affiliated with her campaign or office. The community formed prior to and during her 2020 presidential campaign as an effort to defend Harris from misinformation and attacks perceived as racist and sexist. The movement has been cited as an example of social media fandom or stan culture.
Julie Chávez Rodriguez is an American political rights activist and campaign manager for the Joe Biden 2024 presidential campaign. She grew up in California in a well-known family of American labor and civil rights activists,the granddaughter of American labor leader,César Chávez and American labor activist Helen Fabela Chávez. From 2008 to 2016,Chávez Rodriguez served in the Obama administration,initially working for the United States Secretary of the Interior and later in the White House Office of Public Engagement.
The presidential transition of Joe Biden began on November 7,2020,and ended on January 20,2021. Unlike previous presidential transitions,which normally take place during the roughly 10-week period between the election in the first week of November and the inauguration on January 20,Biden's presidential transition was shortened somewhat because the General Services Administration under the outgoing Trump administration did not recognize Biden as the "apparent winner" until November 23.
Katherine Joan Bedingfield is an American political advisor who served as the White House Communications Director in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2023. She previously served as deputy campaign manager for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign and as communications director for Biden when he was vice president in the Obama administration.
Ashley Danielle Etienne is an American political advisor who served as the communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris. She is the former communications director and senior advisor to Nancy Pelosi,the first woman and person of color to hold the position of Communications Director for the House Speaker. She was also a former special assistant to Barack Obama.
Hartina M. "Tina" Flournoy is an American political advisor who served as chief of staff to vice president Kamala Harris from 2021 to 2022.
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Joe Biden during the first quarter of 2021,beginning from his inauguration as the 46th president of the United States on January 20,2021,to March 31,2021. To navigate between quarters,see timeline of the Joe Biden presidency. For the Q2 timeline see timeline of the Joe Biden presidency.
Adam Schultz is an American photographer and the chief official White House photographer for the presidency of Joe Biden.
