Udupi (Karnataka): US President-elect Joe Biden has appointed Indian-American Mala Adiga as the policy director for his wife Jill, choosing an experienced education policy hand as the incoming First Lady focuses on education and plans to continue teaching community college classes.
Mala is Originally from Kukkunje of Kudapura Taluk in Udupi District. Mala’s grandfather Dr. Chandrashekar Adiga was a landlord in Kukkunje near Kundapur. Her father Dr. Ramesh Adiga had moved from Kundapur to the US at the age of 24 after completing his medical education in 1960. Her mother Jaya Adiga had studied medicine in Vellore.
Mala was born in the US. She, however, has not forgotten her roots. She along with her husband Charles Biro had attended marriage functions of her close relatives in Kundapur. She is also a patron of Chaitanya Special School, Kundapur. Mala and Charles have a 15-year-old daughter Asha.
Mala graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa. She earned her J D (Juris doctor, degree required to practice law in the US) from the University of Chicago Law School and her Masters in Public Health from the University of Minnesota.
Adiga was a senior adviser to Jill and senior policy adviser for Mr Biden’s 2020 campaign. She previously worked for the Biden Foundation as director for higher education and military families. Before that, during Obama’s administration, she was deputy assistant secretary of state for academic programs at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and worked in the State Department’s Office of Global Women’s Issues as chief of staff and senior adviser to the ambassador-at-large.
The relatives of Mala Adiga, are very happy about her achievement and are congratulating her for getting the post of Policy Director.
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