Irene Bueno
Irene Bueno
Background
Irene Bueno is a government relations, policy and political consultant at the Nueva Vista Group, L.L.C. (NVG) in Washington, D.C. A former top official in the Clinton Administration, she was Special Assistant to the President and worked in both the White House Chief of Staff’s Office and Domestic Policy Council.
In addition, she was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation/Congressional Liaison at the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Bueno served as Legislative Assistant for both Senator Alan Cranston (D-CA) and Congressman Ed Roybal (D-CA). Ms. Bueno is and has been involved in political campaigns including the successful Mark Warner for Governor campaign, Gore-Lieberman and Clinton-Gore Presidential campaigns, and Gloria Ochoa for Congress campaign.
Ms. Bueno also is an active member of the Asian Pacific American community. Her activities include serving as Chair of the Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) and member of the District of Columbia Commission on Asian Pacific Americans. She also is a volunteer for the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless and was a former board member for the Dinner Program for Homeless Women. She is a graduate of University of California Berkeley and Hastings College of the Law. [1]
Clinton supporter
In January 2008, Hillary Clinton launched her “AAPIs for Hillary” committee by naming Congresswoman Doris Matsui national co-chair of the AAPI outreach efforts. They rolled out an ambitious outreach plan focusing on six states/regions headed up by established political names. In California, co-chairs include state Controller John Chiang; Board of Equalization member Judy Chu; Assembly members Michael Eng, Mary Hayashi and Fiona Ma; and California Democratic Party Vice Chairwoman Alicia Wang.
Northern California co-chairs include Otto Lee, mayor of Sunnyvale; Henry Manayan, former mayor of Milpitas; and Mona Pasquil, former deputy political director for the “Kerry-Edwards 2004” campaign. Southern California co-chairs include Rajen Anand, chair of the National Federation of Indian American Associations; Charmaine Manansala, former senior policy analyst for the White House Initiative on AAPIs; and Elena Ong and Julie Soo, former officers of the California Democratic Party.
The former Clinton administration appointed one of the largest concentrations of high-level White House AAPIs in history. Many of these former community-based appointees are active in this campaign. Irene Bueno, a former appointee and founder of the Washington, D.C.-based Asian American Action Fund, is a key consultant with the campaign.[2]
Asian American Action Fund
Circa 2013 Irene Bueno served on the Executive Board of the Asian American Action Fund;[3]