PERSON: Shalanda Young

Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP)

Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Shalanda Delores Young (born August 29, 1977) is an American political advisor who is the current director of the Office of Management and Budget, previously serving in an acting capacity from March 24, 2021, through March 17, 2022 concurrently as deputy director. She previously worked for the United States House Committee on Appropriations as its staff director.

Shalanda Delores Young was born in Zachary, Louisiana, and raised in Clinton, Louisiana. After graduating from Scotlandville Magnet High School, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Loyola University New Orleans and a Master of Health Administration from Tulane University.

Young moved to Washington, D.C., around 2001, where she became a Presidential Management Fellow with the National Institutes of Health.

For 14 years, Young worked as a staffer for the United States House Committee on Appropriations. In February 2017, she was named staff director of the committee, a position in which she served until her nomination for deputy director of OMB in 2021. As staff director on the committee, Young was involved with creating proposals related to the 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown and the federal government response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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