PERSON: Julie Chavez Rodriguez

Chapman University

Presidential Fellow

Julie Chávez Rodriguez (born April 7, 1978) is an American political consultant and was the campaign manager for Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign, transitioning to that role from President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign.

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. In 2016, She was appointed state director for Senator Kamala Harris and from 2017 to 2019 served on her 2020 presidential campaign. In 2020, Biden, the eventual Democratic presidential nominee, hired Chávez Rodriguez as senior advisor for Latino outreach in his presidential campaign. In 2021, Chávez Rodriguez was appointed to be the director of Biden’s White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. In 2022 she was appointed senior advisor to the president, and, in 2023, as his campaign manager.

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