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Do The Words A President Uses Really Matter?

Aneesh Raman leads civic engagement & partnerships at Facebook. Previously he was a Vice President at Raise.me, a technology startup focused on expanding access to higher education in America.[1]
Prior to joining Raise.me, Raman was Vice President of Marketing and Communications at OZY Media,[2] a new media company backed by a number of high-profile investors including Laurene Powell Jobs, Larry Sonsini, David Drummond (Google), Dan Rosensweig and Ron Conway. Before OZY, Raman was a domestic policy speechwriter to the President of the United States Barack Obama, making him the country’s first Indian-American Presidential Speechwriter.[3][4] Raman came to the White House after working at the United States Department of Defense and at the Treasury Department, where he was speechwriter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner during a historic global financial crisis.[5] Raman began his career as an award-winning CNN war correspondent and the network’s first correspondent based in the Middle East responsible for region-wide coverage.
A graduate of Harvard College and a former Fulbright scholar, Raman is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations[6] and a member of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library‘s New Frontier Award Committee.[7]