Office of Public Engagement - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Office of Public Engagement Index / Organizations Transcripts Bill McKibben ...there, and they had someone from the Office of Public Engagement , or whatever, meet with us in th... ...or Outreach, or something [read: Office of Public Engagement ]. We agreed that we would have ... Macon Phillips ...way. So we had a whole apparatus in the Office of Public Engagement where they had leads on, like, We nee... Melody Barnes ...interfaced with the White House was the Office of Public Engagement . To what extent were you working wit... ...what extent were you working with the Office of Public Engagement over at DPC? Sure. Well, I worke... ...Sure. Well, I worked very closely with OPE . That office fell under the purview o... Paulette Aniskoff ...to the president and director of the Office of Public Engagement . Before that, she served in the Whit... ...job, Jon Carson, had been running the Office of Public Engagement in the White House with Valerie Jarret... ...Let's dig into your big job at the Office of Public Engagement . What was the scope of that job? Wha... ...doing day to day and overall? So, the Office of Public Engagement —the goal of the office is to be th... Cecilia Muñoz ...and we did that in the White House. The Office of Public Engagement lead on these issues at the time wa... ...to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The Office of Public Engagement —which Valerie oversaw, and Tina Tche... Sharon Block ...person, because we were going to do— Office of Public Engagement [OPE] was the one that would do this... ...to do—Office of Public Engagement [ OPE ] was the one that would do this; w... ...much at all. John Bisognano, who was in OPE , was, like, the labor liaison for th... Stephanie Valencia ...Valencia has served in the White House Office of Public Engagement from 2009 to 2013, serving as a specia... ...that would soon be changed to the Office of Public Engagement . My remit there was to communicat... ...and one of the people who had the Office of Public Engagement , what I would always tell him and th... ...people around him was—we were called OPE —and I said, “We always put the ‘OPE... ...OPE—and I said, “We always put the ‘ OPE ' in ‘hope.'” For us, I think tha... ...their community through the foundation. OPE has always struck me as that contac... ...sentiment gets translated through OPE , and through your position i... ...in particular? Yes. I think that OPE has always been seen as the front doo... ...Ms. Valencia served in the White House Office of Public Engagement from 2009 to 2013, serving as a specia... ...about those early days and your work at OPE . I thought where we could start today... ...the things that you developed while at OPE was something called the Hispani... ...outreach was a big part of your work at OPE . In the book West Wingers, you tal... ...over the course of your time in OPE . Well, it was funny, because ove... ...always a core part of—we used to say in OPE that we put the “OPE” in “hope,” an... ...used to say in OPE that we put the “ OPE ” in “hope,” and that we were reall... ...that little flame lit in our work in OPE , and the work that we did, and how w... ...the campaign was a little bit in OPE and a lot in what I represented, ... ...that we did. What led you to leave OPE in 2013? You know, I had been ther... Show more... Anne Filipic ...into the administration and into the Office of Public Engagement [OPE] ? In spring of 2011, anothe... ...into the Office of Public Engagement [ OPE ] ? In spring of 2011, another one o... ...years, Tina Tchen ended up leaving the Office of Public Engagement in the White House. I believe that i... ...did your work look like as deputy at OPE ? So we often described the work a... ...So we often described the work at OPE as being the front door of the Whit... ...campaign shape what you were doing at OPE at all? Well, not really, in th... ...enrollment in 2013. And in my role in OPE , and the fact that I had worked at HH... Show more... Chris Lu ...Muñoz, who were in charge of the Office of Public Engagement [OPE] and [Office of] Intergovernmenta... ...of the Office of Public Engagement [ OPE ] and [Office of] Intergovernmenta... ...but she was also the head of the Office of Public Engagement and the head of Intergovernmenta... ...Why don't I invite the head of the Office of Public Engagement , Tina Tchen, the head o... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Gun Control Gun Control go to the Education Education go to the Republican Opposition Republican Opposition go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Public Health Public Health