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Caught Our Eye

AOC chief heads to State Department

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 12, 2021

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has lost her chief of staff to the State Department.

Ariel Eckblad is now deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, where she's focusing on conflict and instability in Africa and Asia.

She was one of Ocasio-Cortez's first congressional hires and later replaced chief Saikat Chakrabarti, whose sudden resignation kicked off an investigation into possible campaign-finance violations. Eckblad has also worked for then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).