Prior to her current role at CHIPS, Atissa Ladjevardian most recently served as senior associate director at the White House where she led Presidential appointments to economic agencies and independent boards and commissions and to Ambassadorships. Prior to her role at the White House, Ladjevardian worked for the Presidential Inaugural Committee and the Biden-Harris campaign as a deputy finance director and finance director for Women for Biden. Ladjevardian also worked for Fulkerson Kennedy & Company, advising on the campaigns of Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, and for the Clinton-Kaine campaign. She received her bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale University and originally is from Houston, Texas.