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Gabriel Felix Kofi Amo is the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Special Assistant to the President, where he serves as President Biden’s principal liaison to mayors and local elected officials.

Education and Early Life
Amo graduated from Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was President of the Student Senate and received the Rhode Island Secretary of State’s Civic Leadership Award. Amo also was selected to participate in the United States Senate Youth Program in Washington, D.C.

Amo received a B.A. from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. He was also President of the Student Government Association. Amo received a Truman Scholarship, Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship, and a Marshall Scholarship to study comparative social policy at the University of Oxford. [Wheaton 2021 Story]

Career
Amo is currently the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Special Assistant to the President, where he serves as President Biden’s principal liaison to mayors and local elected officials. [WH 46 IGA Bio] Amo previously worked in the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs in the Obama Administration, where he served as a liaison to governors and other state officials. He also worked on the 2013 Presidential Inaugural Committee (DEmocracy in action website). [NNCVR]

Before joining the Biden administration, Amo worked as National States Strategy and Program Advisor on the Biden-Harris Campaign and served on the Biden-Harris transition team. [Wheaton 2021 Story]

Amo was previously appointed by former Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo as Director of Public Engagement and Community Affairs, where he served as Governor Raimondo’s principal advisor on outreach to Rhode Island’s business, faith, local government, and other communities. [Boston Globe, would like something crisper from your time in RI]

Amo has also worked as senior advisor on Governor Gina Raimondo’s 2018 re-election campaign [need cite, should be a Providence Journal article] and as National Political Coordinator for the Obama-Biden 2012 re-election campaign (Democracy in Action website). [WH 44 IGA Bio] In college, Amo worked for Sheldon Whitehouse’s 2006 Senate election campaign and volunteered for Obama for America. [Wheaton Student Page]