WP: Obama seems to be assembling his senior staff with an eye toward gender and ethnic diversity

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/12/03/ST2008120300616.html

President-Elect's Picks Prove Diversity Is More Than Skin-Deep
By Al Kamen


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"Almost all of them have political experience of one kind or another and have a very impressive range of skills," said Paul C. Light, a scholar of presidential transitions and the federal government at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service. The school's Presidential Transition Project gathered the statistics in cooperation with The Washington Post.

Obama seems to be assembling his senior staff with an eye toward gender and ethnic diversity, filling almost half the positions with women and one-third with non-whites. "It's much more diverse than critics suggest," Light said.

The nominees have far-ranging academic credentials, with graduates of Harvard (Gregory B. Craig, Terrell McSweeney) and Yale (Austan Goolsbee), as well as North Carolina State University (Robert Gibbs) and Wheaton College (Ellen Moran). Two of every three nominees boast an advanced degree.

[ClarkUSA]

1. Who says a meritocracy has to be boring?

:)

[Occam Bandage]

2. Wait. You mean the best-qualified people aren't always old white male yes-man lawyers?

I'm shocked.