New York Mayor Selects Three Indian-Americans For Top Posts

Saturday, 22 March 2014, 00:58 IST
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Agarwal called her new job as “really the culmination of so many parts of my life. And the lessons that I’ve learned in the course of that life – that the fire in the belly for better opportunities to speak up for progressive values, is universal.” ”And that it’s a fire that burned in my grandfather as he marched for freedom alongside Mahatma Gandhi in India,” she said.

“And it’s a fire that crossed borders with my parents when they emigrated to the United States.” Udai Tambar, according to SAYA!, “will report to Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, and will work to help accomplish the Mayor’s agenda to address inequality.”

Tambar, who went to Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Cornell University, was a member of the mayor’s 60-person transition committee.
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Source: IANS