BOSTON– The South Asian Arts & Cultural Council is hosting Gautam Raghavan in its Speaker Series on Saturday, Dec. 8, at Boston Public Library.
The event, which will be held from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, is free to attendees. It will be held at Boston Public Library – RABB Hall located at 700 Boylston Street, Boston, MA.
Raghavan currently serves as Executive Director of the Indian American Impact Project & Fund and as an advisor to the Biden Foundation. He previously served as Vice President of Policy for the Gill Foundation, the nation’s oldest funder of LGBTQ Civil Rights Advocacy. From 2011 to 2014, Raghavan served as President Barack Obama’s liaison to the LGBTQ community as well as the Asian American & Pacific Islander community, and from 2009 to 2011, as Acting White House Liaison for the U.S. Department of Defense and as Outreach Lead for the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Working Group.
A first-generation immigrant, Raghavan was born in India, raised in the Seattle area, and graduated from Stanford University.
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