Inside Job: An Interview with Day Al-Mohamed

7/8/2013

Bisexual Arab-American woman. Senior policy advisor with the U.S. Department of Labor. Steampunk enthusiast. All of these terms describe Day Al-Mohamed. In this interview she discusses her path to DC, working on the Affordable Care Act, and fighting for a trans-inclusive Employee Non-Discrimination Act. Highlights include:

why you shouldn't go into "disability policy" as a career,
what not to wear to a day of lobbying in Washington,
how to get disparate groups to work together without killing each other.

I apologize for all the background noise. This interview was done during VONA at UC Berkeley, which was under construction at the time.
Download here. Transcript here.

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