Celeste Drake

Celeste Drake

Celeste Drake was appointed Director of Made in America at the Office of Management and Budget on April 27, 2021 by Joe Biden. She was formerly Trade and Globalization Policy Specialist at AFL-CIO and served as head of the Directors Guild of America.

Bio

Verbatim from the White House:

WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced Celeste Drake as his choice to serve as the Nation’s first Director of Made in America at the Office of Management and Budget.

Celeste Drake, Made in America Director, Office of Management and Budget

As the Nation’s first Made in America Director, Celeste Drake will shape and implement Federal procurement and financial management policy to help carry out the President’s vision of a future made in all of America by all of America’s workers — including minority entrepreneurs and small businesses in every region in our country. Drake joins the administration from the Directors Guild of America, where she served as the Executive in Charge of Government Affairs, advocating for the economic and creative interests of the labor union’s more than 18,000 members. Prior to joining the DGA, Drake served as the Trade and Globalization Policy Specialist for the AFL-CIO, where she played an instrumental role in shaping U.S. trade policy to promote inclusive growth for working American families and the manufacturing sector. Drake has led efforts to reform the labor rules in the NAFTA/USMCA, to convince the U.S. government to address labor rights violations in Bangladesh, Thailand, Fiji, and Georgia, and to reform the process by which Congress oversees and approves trade agreements to protect American jobs. Drake began her policy career on Capitol Hill as Legislative Director for Congresswoman Linda Sanchez (D-CA) and a Legislative Counsel for Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX). A former high school economics and history teacher, Drake has a JD, an MPP, and a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Verbatim from AFL-CIO:

Celeste Drake was the trade and globalization policy specialist at the AFL-CIO until 2019. She advocated for reforms to U.S. trade policy to create shared gains from trade on behalf of working families. She has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, various House subcommittees and the U.S. International Trade Commission, and made presentations before the European Union’s Economic and Social Committee.

Prior to joining the AFL-CIO, she served as legislative director for Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), legislative counsel for Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), clerk for the Honorable David R. Thompson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, and teacher of economics and world history at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, California. Drake, who sits on the Board of Jubilee Network USA, has a Juris Doctor, a Master of Public Policy and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Liz Shuler Connection

Liz Shuler tweet dated Apr 27, 2021 congratulating Celeste Drake for her appointment at the Office of Management and Budget for the Biden- Harris Administration.

Liz Shuler congratulated Celeste Drake on Twitter on Apr 27, 2021 for her appointment at the Office of Management and Budget for the Biden- Harris Administration.

Anti TPP

Alison Rose Levy wrote in Facebook, 11/12/2016;

Hooray for the Flush the TPP Friends of the Earth U.S. and TradeJustice New York Metro Progressives-- with a little help from our friends, Margaret Flowers Kevin Zeese Adam Weissman William Waren Andrea Miller Arthur Stamoulis Stan Sorscher Lauren Steiner Elizabeth Warren Mary Ellen Persuit Jeanne Marie Dauray Mara Cohen Arthur Stamoulis Ilana Solomon Ben Beachy Evan Greer Tom Kruse Susie Chasnoff Celeste Drake Nancy Russell Strong Harriet Heywood Wendie W. Goetz and of course---- Lori Wallach and everyone at Global Trade Watch!!!

Left Forum 2016

Celeste Drake took part in a panel discussion sponsored by Progressive Democrats of America's People Demanding Action at the Left Forum 2016:

Neoliberalism, Globalization and the Privatization of Everything — What It Will Take to Win Back Government of the People

• Stephen Spitz, Chair .....People Demanding Action
• Andrea Miller .....People Demanding Action
• Jann Campbell ..... People Demanding Action
• Donna Smith ....... Progressive Democrats of America
• Mimi Kennedy ...... National Election Integrity Coalition
• Celeste Drake ....AFL-CIO

AFL-CIO panel on trade

December 1, 2014, the AFL-CIO convened a panel about Pending Trade Deals as Free Trade “Charm Offensive” Comes to Charlotte

Panelists will highlight for public and press what pro-traders want to hide, Dec. 1 at 6:30 PM

The panel of policy makers, policy experts, business leaders, and workers will discuss whether trade deals lead to job creation and greater prosperity for our country or the devastation of our manufacturing sector, more offshoring of service-sector jobs and a growing trade deficit that leaves us more in debt to the rest of the world.

Who: Congresswoman Alma Adams; Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO trade policy expert; MaryBe McMillan, Secretary-Treasurer of the NC State AFL-CIO; Chris Kromm, Executive Director of the Institute for Southern Studies; Tony Hawkins with UAW Local 5285; Ed Kaleda with CWA 3603; Rick Malliris, retired CEO of KB Alloys (now known as AMG Aluminum).

Contacts: Jeremy Sprinkle, Communications Director, DeLane Adams, AFL-CIO Field Communications.