Office of Public Engagement - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Office of Public Engagement Index / Organizations Transcripts Rumana Ahmed ...of 2011. She then moved on to the Office of Public Engagement [OPE] in 2012 before becoming a senio... ...on to the Office of Public Engagement [ OPE ] in 2012 before becoming a senio... ...they wanted to do more with was the Office of Public Engagement . At that point, their hope was, if ... ...he wants to push for. But within the Office of Public Engagement , there's going to be so many effort... ...bit later, when we're talking about OPE , but I was almost wondering if thing... ...in. Jon Carson, who was the head of the Office of Public Engagement at that time—he's the one who, again... ...the time I joined Public Engagement, of OPE and Correspondence working together t... ...find out about what led to your move to OPE in 2012. After I had started as ... ...to the policy side of your first day at OPE the Obama White House's approach t... ...was in 2012 when you joined. Office of Public Engagement , their purpose and strength was reall... ...doing as the liaison and as part of OPE 's larger work. And my question is... ...to the White House to interact with OPE , to use that connection point? It'... ...that. And then before we move on from OPE , we'll make sure we cover everythin... ...it really did add was—I think in the Office of Public Engagement perspective, it helped us gai... ...Is there anything from that time at OPE that you want to highlight? One o... ...a lens that you particularly brought to OPE , or did that inform the way the offic... ...the office thought about engagement? Office of Public Engagement had its own youth lead and coordinator... ...that lens; because it was part of the Office of Public Engagement 's focus, but sometimes it just didn'... ...about those gaps. Maybe before we leave OPE , can I ask what those gaps were? Wha... ...from what you had been doing at OPE ? What was interesting was, tha... ...were describing what you were doing at OPE but maybe with, in some cases... ...were typically always organized by the Office of Public Engagement and every now and then organized b... ...what I learned and knew from the Office of Public Engagement . Was there a playbook? No. I think i... Show more... Felice Gorordo ...from 2011 to 2012 in the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs. For th... ...see that actually take shape from the Office of Public Engagement , and Cecilia Muñoz, a former activis... Leah Katz-Hernandez ... Office of Public Engagement [OPE] in 2010, and was also a voluntee... ... OPE ] in 2010, and was also a voluntee... ... OPE .” I was initially confused, but ... ... OPE at that point, and whether you learne... ... OPE —it was really the director of OPE... ... OPE , whose name is Tina Tchen. And she wa... ... OPE , but this was such an important tim... ... OPE as an intern. And I thought maybe ... ... OPE of the campaign. The vetting is ... ...She interned for the White House in the Office of Public Engagement in 2010, and was also a volunteer fo... ...Out the Vote, and he was basically the Office of Public Engagement for the campaign. He said, “Hurry up... ...White House on disability policy in the OPE . I kept in touch with them. Sara move... ...convenings at the White House through OPE , for example. You mentioned in Wes... ...happen, or vice versa. The Office of Public Engagement that is housed in the Eisenhowe... Show more... Jeanne Lambrew ...organize information. We had a whole Office of Public Engagement team that was fabulous, that we worke... Pete Rouse ...team; Valerie Jarrett and the Office of Public Engagement was involved in that, because you wan... Samantha Tubman ...help initiate a bill signing, or the Office of Public Engagement . Tina Tchen was running tha... ...and worked with the West Wing, the Office of Public Engagement , to help us source those schools an... ...Halloween, again, working with the Office of Public Engagement to get lists of schools of who can w... Eric Waldo ...from the White House who worked in the Office of Public Engagement . His name is Kyle Lierman, and h... ...2015 my colleague Kyle Lierman in the Office of Public Engagement , he said, “Hey, I'm bringing in al... Jocelyn Frye ...on, about how you may have worked with OPE [Office of Public Engagement] in term... ...how you may have worked with OPE [ Office of Public Engagement ] in terms of the outreach to th... ...in general. You know, we worked with OPE in a couple of different ways. One o... ...of the most important things is that OPE , there were folks in Office of Publi... ...things is that OPE, there were folks in Office of Public Engagement who were tasked with working with th... ...across the building, whether it was OPE or other offices, a... ...folks who were part of the NSC and the Office of Public Engagement who engaged directly with veterans an... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Science Science