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Barack Obama Nominates Indian-American Actor Kal Penn For Key Post
Washington: U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated popular Indian-American actor and former White House staffer Kal Penn for a key administration post of member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
The announcement came for The Namesake fame actor, who served in the White House during the Obama's first term and played a key role in his re-election campaign last year, in particular attracting the youth in the run-up to the polls.
Born in New Jersey as as Kalpen Suresh Modi, Penn is an actor, writer and producer, who shot to fame with the Harold and Kumar film series.
From 2009 to 2011 he was an Associate Director of the Office of Public Engagement with the Obama Administration, serving as liaison to Young Americans, the Arts, and Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
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Source: PTI
