As anticipated in our most recent Transition “Next Steps” post from Monday, the Biden-Harris Transition team on Tuesday this week announced its Agency Review teams. These are the groups assigned to interact with each Federal agency, take inventory of pending issues, such personnel and agency management, budget, and policy, and report back an assessment that will be used both for briefing incoming political appointees and developing policy approaches.
Complicating the work of these Review Teams, the Trump Administration, through its administrator of General Services Administration (GSA), has refused, as of this writing, to recognize Vice President Biden and Senator Harris as the “President-elect” and “Vice-President-elect.” Those terms are defined under the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 as “such persons as are the apparent successful candidates for the office of the President and Vice President, respectively, as ascertained by the Administrator following the general elections.” Absent such a determination, the Biden Transition is denied access to agency career staffers, briefing materials, funding, office space, and other resources specified by Federal Law.
The Biden Transition has signaled its intent to proceed despite this GSA position.
Below are the team rosters for the Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and Human Services/Food and Drug Administration, Office of the United States Trade Representative, and International Development. For a full list of all the teams government wide, click here.
United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture team will also review the Farm Credit Administration and the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation.
Name | Most Recent Employment | Source of Funding |
Robert Bonnie, Team Lead | Duke University, Bipartisan Policy Center | Volunteer |
Nicholas Anthis | University of California | Volunteer |
Sanah Baig | The Good Food Institute | Volunteer |
Brooke Barron | Office of the Speaker, Maine State Legislature | Volunteer |
Kumar Chandran | FoodCorps | Volunteer |
Jonathan Coppess | The University of Illinois | Volunteer |
Andrea Delgado | UFW Foundation | Volunteer |
Debra Eschmeyer | Arizona State University | Volunteer |
Meryl Harrell | Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards | Volunteer |
LaQuita Honeysucker | The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union | Volunteer |
John Padalino | Bandera Electric Cooperative, Inc. | Volunteer |
Gregory Parham | United States Department of Agriculture (Retired) | Volunteer |
Lisa Pino | State of New York, Department of Health | Volunteer |
Amy Pitelka | Barker Pitelka PLLC | Volunteer |
Jeffrey Prieto | Los Angeles Community College District | Volunteer |
Audrey Rowe | Self-employed | Volunteer |
Corey Then | Moneta Group | Volunteer |
Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services team will also review the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Name | Most Recent Employment | Source of Funding |
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Team Lead | Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, LLP | Volunteer |
Robert Gordon, Team Lead | State of Michigan, Department of Health & Human Services | Volunteer |
Kathryn Alvarez | The Aspen Institute | Volunteer |
John Auerbach | Trust for America’s Health | Volunteer |
Lisa Barclay | Boies Schiller Flexner, LLP | Volunteer |
Jonathan Blum | Health Management Associates | Volunteer |
Lu Borio | In-Q-Tel | Volunteer |
Perrie Briskin | University of California, Berkeley | Volunteer |
Ken Choe | Hogan Lovells, LLP | Volunteer |
Henry Claypool | Self-employed | Volunteer |
Jose Cordero | University of Georgia | Volunteer |
Sarah Despres | Pew Charitable Trusts | Volunteer |
Eliot Fishman | Families USA | Volunteer |
Cristal Gary | AMITA Health | Volunteer |
Mina Hsiang | Devoted Health | Volunteer |
Tom Inglesby | Johns Hopkins University | Volunteer |
David C. Kaslow | PATH | Volunteer |
Natalie Kates | Alloy | Volunteer |
Jeremy Konyndyk | Center for Global Development | Volunteer |
Anna Martinez | State of New Jersey, Department of Children and Families, Division on Women | Volunteer |
Sarah Nolan | Service Employees International Union | Volunteer |
Yngvild Olsen | Institutes for Behavior Resources, Inc. | Volunteer |
Edwin Park | Georgetown University | Volunteer |
Sharon Parrott | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | Volunteer |
Chuck Peck | Guidehouse, Inc. | Volunteer |
Anne Reid | Co-Equal | Volunteer |
Geoff Roth | Self-employed | Volunteer |
Meena Seshamani | MedStar Health | Volunteer |
Cyrus Shahpar | Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies | Volunteer |
Mary Wakefield | University of Texas at Austin | Volunteer |
Office of the United States Trade Representative
The Office of the United States Trade Representative team will also review the United States International Trade Commission and the US Trade and Development Agency.
Name | Most Recent Employment | Source of Funding |
Jason Miller, Team Lead | Self-employed | Volunteer |
Kathleen Claussen | University of Miami | Volunteer |
Ted Dean | Dropbox | Volunteer |
Celeste Drake | Directors Guild of America | Volunteer |
Michelle DuBois | Values Partnerships | Volunteer |
Julie Greene | AFL-CIO | Volunteer |
Elizabeth Kelley | Urban Institute | Volunteer |
Riley Ohlson | Alliance for American Manufacturing | Volunteer |
Patrick Schaefer | State of New Mexico | Volunteer |
Daniel Sepulveda | MediaMath | Volunteer |
Brad Setser | Council on Foreign Relations | Volunteer |
Todd Tucker | The Roosevelt Institute | Volunteer |
Arun Venkataraman | Visa, Inc. | Volunteer |
Mark Wu | Harvard Law School | Volunteer |
Ryan Zamarripa | Center for American Progress | Volunteer |
International Development
The International Development group includes the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Peace Corps, the United States Agency for International Development, and the United States International Development Finance Corporation.
Name | Most Recent Employment | Source of Funding |
Linda Etim, Team Lead | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Volunteer |
Elizabeth Littlefield, Team Lead | Albright Stonebridge Group | Volunteer |
Cameron Alford | U.S. Bank | Volunteer |
Ashley Allen | Oatly | Volunteer |
Bama Athreya | Laudes Foundation | Volunteer |
Gaby Baca | White & Case, LLP | Volunteer |
Alex Crabtree | American Civil Liberties Union | Volunteer |
Beth Dunford | United States Agency for International Development (Retired) | Volunteer |
Chinesom Ejiasa | Sums 15 Holdings, LLC | Volunteer |
Dina Esposito | Mercy Corps | Volunteer |
Kate Gage | The Movement Cooperative | Volunteer |
Tara Guelig | The Lightsmith Group | Volunteer |
Charles Holmes | Georgetown University | Volunteer |
Cindy Huang | Refugees International | Volunteer |
Brian O’Hanlon | Rocky Mountain Institute | Volunteer |
Michele Sumilas | Bread for the World | Volunteer |
