White House Author
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Paul Monteiro
Former Public Engagement Advisor
Monteiro is the former Public Engagement Advisor in the White House Office of Public Engagement. He worked for then-Senator Obama in his Senate office in 2006 before joining the Obama for America campaign in Chicago as the national Deputy Director of Religious Affairs. A graduate of the University of Maryland and the Howard University School of Law, he previously worked at the United States Supreme Court, two Washington, D.C. law firms, and spent a year teaching at a local public charter school.