ulie Chávez Rodriguez (born April 7, 1978)[1] is an American political rights activist and the campaign manager for Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign, transitioning to that role from President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign.
She grew up in California in a well-known family of American labor and civil rights activists, the granddaughter of American labor leader César Chávez and American labor activist Helen Fabela Chávez.
From 2008 to 2016, Chávez Rodriguez served in the Obama administration, initially working for the United States Secretary of the Interior and later in the White House Office of Public Engagement. In 2016, She was appointed state director for Senator Kamala Harris and from 2017 to 2019 served on her 2020 presidential campaign. In 2020, Biden, the eventual Democratic presidential nominee, hired Chávez Rodriguez as senior advisor for Latino outreach in his presidential campaign. In 2021, Chávez Rodriguez was appointed to be the director of Biden’s White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. In 2022 she was appointed senior advisor to the president, and, in 2023, as his campaign manager.
Rodriguez was born in Delano, California.[2] She was raised in Tehachapi in a family of well-known labor activists affiliated with the United Farm Workers of America organization. She is the daughter of Linda Chávez Rodriguez and Arturo Rodriguez, and the granddaughter of American labor activist, Helen Fabela Chávez, and American labor leader, César Chávez. Her parents were full time volunteers for the UFWA. Rodriguez would often attend labor rallies with her parents and grandparents and assist them in UFWA community outreach activities.[1]
Rodriguez attended Tehachapi High School, and later attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Latin American Studies.[3] During her summer breaks, Rodriguez worked at the AFL–CIO. She also spent summers volunteering with the UFWA, organizing strawberry pickers in Watsonville, California.[2]
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign announced on Friday that it raised $310 million last month.
The haul by Ms Harris, the Democratic National Committee and affiliated entities far outpaced Republican former president Donald Trump, whose campaign and assorted committees said they took in 138.7 million dollars (£109 million) for July.
