Roohi Rustum named as national organising director

The Biden-Harris re-election campaign was announced on Wednesday, and Roohi Rustum - a Bangladeshi-American has been tapped to serve as its national organising director - the first woman of colour and the first #LGBTQ person to serve in this role for a general election presidential campaign.

Rustum was most recently the interim national organising director for the Democratic National Committee, where she led early organizing efforts for the campaign in Arizona and Wisconsin.

She also directed "get out the vote" initiatives for key 2023 races like Kentucky's gubernatorial and Virginia's state legislative elections, which saw sweeping Democratic victories.

Roohi Rustum obtained her degrees in molecular biology from Yale University, business administration and classic literature from Harvard and MIT.

Her father Dr Abu Rustum was also a brilliant student of Department of Chemistry, University of Dhaka and in 1981, he went to University of Wisconsin with research fellowship. Presently he is a top level person in a leading pharmaceutical company in USA.