Office of Public Engagement - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Office of Public Engagement Index / Organizations Transcripts Jordan Brooks ...me think about this. Tina was in the Office of Public Engagement for the first couple of years, and the... ...I don't know if Stephanie had been at OPE [Office of Public Engagement] and wen... ...know if Stephanie had been at OPE [ Office of Public Engagement ] and went with her. Regardless, sh... ...deal. That was something that the Office of Public Engagement , which is where I ended up sitting—i... ...and lived in both the DPC and the Office of Public Engagement was really where we sat. Also, ther... ...Figures—was a junior-ish staffer in the Office of Public Engagement . She had been working particularly o... Show more... Danielle White ...numbers and our relationships. If it's OPE [Office of Public Engagement], then... ...and our relationships. If it's OPE [ Office of Public Engagement ], then, for them it's the people. It'... Deesha Dyer ...Office, State Department, but the Office of Public Engagement , the Chief of Staff's Office, th... Karen Richardson ...of public engagement in the White House Office of Public Engagement [OPE] from 2009 to 2014. Richardso... ...House Office of Public Engagement [ OPE ] from 2009 to 2014. Richardson als... ...and be a part of the team, that OPE /IGA [Office of Intergovernmenta... ...was the person who was handling OPE /IGA, so I went in as part of that tea... ...staffers. We had fifteen staffers for Office of Public Engagement , if not more, because we ended u... ...Tina Tchen was announced as director of OPE , but once she was, she and I wer... ...was just building out the team for what OPE was going to look like. We changed th... ...like. We changed the name from OPL to OPE , so if I go back and forth, it'... ...relationship in the White House and OPE . You make it successfully through th... ...to him—and, of course, through the Office of Public Engagement , for us to be bringing all differen... ...would that play out in your role at OPE ? [INTERRUPTION] Again, the Offic... ...briefings. And the way that the Office of Public Engagement was divided up was through issue area... ...in what our mission was in the Office of Public Engagement . We'd have to go back through th... ...in some ways. The great thing about the Office of Public Engagement was that we had our issue areas, bu... Show more... Aditi Hardikar ...of public engagement in the White House Office of Public Engagement [OPE] from 2014 to 2016. In thi... ...House Office of Public Engagement [ OPE ] from 2014 to 2016. In this capacity... ...when I think about my time in the Office of Public Engagement as an intern. In terms of th... ...a bit, when does the offer to join the Office of Public Engagement —how does that come about? The ask i... ...[laughs] at the White House, in the Office of Public Engagement . What were those early days like i... ...there was—a lot of what you do in the Office of Public Engagement is, you engage the public, turns out... ...ways that we engage people in the Office of Public Engagement —not just from liaison speaking, bu... ...when the White House hosted events—the Office of Public Engagement would get an allotment of who should w... ...[laughs] who was the director of OPE , where she said, “I think you coul... ...of your time in your position in the Office of Public Engagement ? I think it just renewed my resolv... Show more... Gautam Raghavan ...associate director in the White House Office of Public Engagement from 2011 to 2014. This interview i... Sarada Peri ...but a couple of folks from the Office of Public Engagement , and Comms, had been working o... Heather Foster ...engagement advisor in the White House Office of Public Engagement from 2013 to 2015. Prior to becoming a... ...“Yeah, that's kind of what we do in the Office of Public Engagement .” While I had my friend—all thes... ...Obama—he was in the White House Office of Public Engagement . I used to remember seeing hi... ...wasn't clear yet what exactly would an Office of Public Engagement do for a president. I remembe... ...were looking for solutions. I think the Office of Public Engagement at that time—there were often so man... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa