Houston Native Chosen For Obama Transition Team
By Lisa Baldwin
POSTED: Tuesday, November 11, 2008
HOUSTON -- A Houston-area native has been chosen as one of 17 business executives and former Cabinet officials to serve on President-elect Barack Obama's economic advisory board, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday.Economist Sonal Shah, 40, is taking a leave of absence from her position with Google.org to help out in Washington, D.C.She is a graduate of Alief-Hastings High School, the University of Chicago and Duke University.Her parents live in Sugar Land in Fort Bend County."We are very proud and happy. It's a great time and will make a difference in communities around the world and surely to America," her father, Ramesh, said.
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