Gabriela D. Lemus

Since September 2013, Dr. Gabriela D. Lemus has served as the President of Progressive Congress. During the first half of the Obama Administration, she served as Senior Advisor to Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Director of the Office of Public Engagement from July 2009 until August 2013. In January 2013, she was confirmed by the DC Council to sit on the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) – an HBCU, the only urban Land-grant Institution in the nation and the District’s only public institution of higher learning.