The appointments have been for the secretary positions of Labor, Human Providers, Normal Providers, Veterans Affairs and Juvenile Providers.
WASHINGTON — Maryland Gov.-Elect Wes Moore on Thursday made a number of appointments to his new cupboard.
The appointments have been for the positions of Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Human Providers, Secretary of Normal Providers, Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Secretary of Juvenile Providers.
Moore’s workplace stated the appointments will make the cupboard probably the most numerous within the historical past of the state.
“I promised in my marketing campaign we’d create an Administration that appears just like the State of Maryland, and at present I’m proud to announce that with the addition of those public servants, we’re on our approach to creating probably the most numerous cupboard within the historical past of Maryland,” Moore stated in a information launch. “We’re going to maneuver quick and these leaders are going to assist pave the best way to making a Maryland the place nobody is left behind.”
Listed below are the appointments made to Moore’s cupboard and what Moore’s workplace needed to say about every of them:
Secretary of Well being
Dr. Laura Herrera Scott
“Dr. Laura Herrera Scott is a healthcare chief with experience throughout many years in integrating value-based care philosophy with medical and inhabitants well being methods. She is a visionary chief within the well being house, spearheading the creation of progressive applications that optimize affected person outcomes, enhance the standard of care, and advance well being fairness. Most lately, Dr. Scott served as Government Vice President of Inhabitants Well being at Summit Well being, and as Vice President of Scientific Technique and Product at Anthem. She additionally brings MDH expertise, she final served within the Division of Well being and Psychological Hygiene from 2011-2015 as Deputy Secretary of Public Well being Providers. Dr. Scott is a Veteran of america Military Reserves, serving from 1998-2008 as a Main within the Medical Corps. She acquired a Grasp’s Diploma in Public Well being from Johns Hopkins College and a Physician of Drugs from SUNY Well being Science Heart in Brooklyn, New York. She at the moment lives in Towson, Maryland along with her husband and two youngsters.”
Secretary of Labor
Portia Wu
“Portia Wu joins the Moore-Miller administration from her most up-to-date place as Managing Director of U.S. Public Coverage at Microsoft, the place she has labored since 2017. Wu is an skilled chief who has spent her profession growing and implementing insurance policies that profit America’s employees. Earlier than becoming a member of Microsoft, Wu served as Assistant Secretary for Employment and Coaching at america Division of Labor. In that function, she oversaw federal applications that offered employment providers and job coaching to greater than 15 million people annually. She additionally led the company’s implementation of the bipartisan Workforce Innovation and Alternative Act of 2015, which reformed federal workforce applications and instituted new accountability and reporting measures. From 2011 to 2014, Ms. Wu served on the White Home Home Coverage Council as Particular Assistant and Senior Coverage Advisor to President Barack Obama for Labor and Workforce. Wu additionally served as Labor Coverage Director for the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. She acquired a Grasp’s Diploma in comparative literature from Cornell College and her Juris Doctorate from Yale Legislation College. She and her household stay in Chevy Chase, Maryland.”
Secretary of Human Providers
Rafael López
“Rafael López is a nationwide chief in human providers and main advanced organizations within the public, non-profit, and personal sectors to enhance the lives of youngsters, households, and communities. He shall be becoming a member of the administration as Maryland’s Secretary of Human Providers, coming from america Division of Well being and Human Providers, the place he most lately served as Senior Advisor to the Administration for Youngsters and Households. Within the Biden-Harris Administration, López helped reunite greater than 170,000 unaccompanied youngsters with their relations or different vetted sponsors on the peak of the biggest surge of unaccompanied youngsters in U.S. historical past. López beforehand served within the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers because the Commissioner of the Administration on Youngsters, Youth, and Households for the Obama-Biden Administration. Previous to his appointment, López served as Senior Coverage Advisor on the White Home Workplace of Science and Know-how Coverage throughout the Government Workplace of the President and with the Home Coverage Council. Earlier than serving within the White Home, López served as Affiliate Director of the Annie E. Casey Basis in Baltimore, a nationwide group devoted to growing a brighter future for youngsters and younger individuals with respect to their instructional, financial, social, and well being outcomes. He has additionally served because the President & CEO on the Household League of Baltimore Metropolis, as Government Director of the Fee for Youngsters, Youth, and their Households for the Metropolis of Los Angeles, and as Deputy Director for a similar Division within the Metropolis and County of San Francisco. López is an alumnus of Vassar School and a graduate of the College of California Santa Cruz, and the Harvard College Kennedy College, the place he earned a Grasp’s Diploma in Public Administration. López and his spouse, Rosa, are the proud mother and father of two teenage youngsters, Adán and Mateo.”
Secretary of Normal Providers
Atif Chaudhry
“Atif Chaudhry was beforehand appointed the Maryland Division of Well being Deputy Secretary of Operations in January of 2021. On this function, Mr. Chaudhry oversaw the MDH Healthcare System, the Workplace of Services Administration and Improvement, the Workplace of Preparedness and Response, the Workplace of Security and Secured Transport, and the Workplace of Contract Administration and Procurement. Chaudhry beforehand served because the Performing Deputy Secretary of Operations for the Maryland Division of Well being since August 2020 and the administration’s Director of the Workplace of Services Administration and Improvement since 2017. Chaudhry has labored within the State authorities, particularly for MDH, since 2004. Chaudhry, a resident of Ellicott Metropolis, holds two levels from the College of Baltimore, a Bachelor of Science in Enterprise Administration and a Grasp of Enterprise Administration. He additionally holds a Juris Doctorate from the College of Maryland College of Legislation, and is an energetic member of the Maryland Bar.”
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Anthony Woods
“Tony Woods joins the Moore-Miller administration from his present function because the Government Director of the Quad Fellowship — a first-of-its-kind fellowship program designed to construct ties among the many subsequent era of scientists and technologists. This system sponsors 100 distinctive American, Japanese, Australian, and Indian grasp’s and doctoral college students in science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) to review at American universities. Earlier than founding the Quad Fellowship at Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative of Eric and Wendy Schmidt, Tony had a profitable personal sector profession at Cisco Programs, The Boston Consulting Group, and Capital One. At Schmidt Futures, Tony was the Director and Head of Expertise, main individuals operations together with recruiting, hiring, expertise improvement, and tradition. Tony’s army profession started when he attended West Level and was commissioned as a Lieutenant within the U.S. Military. He served two excursions of obligation in Iraq the place he earned a Bronze Star for his service. Tony was discharged from the U.S. Military in 2008 below the army’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Inform” coverage, which barred members of the LGBTQ neighborhood from serving overtly within the army. After his discharge, Tony ran for Congress and collaborated with advocates working to repeal the regulation. After the regulation’s repeal, Tony resumed his service within the U.S. Military Reserve and at the moment holds the rank of Main and serves as an intelligence analyst assigned to the Joint Employees on the Pentagon. Within the public sector, Tony served as a Program Director at ServiceNation — a marketing campaign of Be The Change, Inc. devoted to rising nationwide and volunteer service. There, he created the “Service as a Technique” initiative to equip a community of over 100 mayors with volunteer-driven options to city-wide challenges. Tony continued his public service as a White Home Fellow within the U.S. Workplace of Personnel Administration below President Barack H. Obama. Tony graduated from the U.S. Navy Academy West Level with a B.S. in Economics and Political Science. He earned a Grasp in Public Coverage from Harvard’s Kennedy College of Authorities and an Government MBA from the College of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith College of Enterprise. Tony and his husband Zack stay in Bowie, Maryland the place they’re restoring a historic residence in-built 1798 and elevating two canine, Juno and Java.”
Secretary of Juvenile Providers
Vincent Schiraldi
“Vincent Schiraldi is a nationwide chief in legal/juvenile justice and mass incarceration reform, a discipline he has labored in for greater than 4 many years. He’s becoming a member of the Moore-Miller administration from Columbia College, the place he served as Senior Analysis Scientist on the Columbia College of Social Work and co-Director of the Columbia Justice Lab, working to cut back the footprint and detrimental impression of neighborhood corrections, eradicate youth prisons, and create a developmentally acceptable response to offending by younger adults. Mr. Schiraldi went to Columbia from the Harvard Kennedy College Program in Prison Justice the place he was a Senior Researcher. Mr. Schiraldi additionally has intensive authorities expertise in legal and juvenile justice. As Commissioner of New York Metropolis’s Division of Correction, he tried to shut Riker’s Island and finish the apply of solitary confinement. Mr. Schiraldi additionally served as director of juvenile corrections in Washington DC, as Commissioner of the New York Metropolis Division of Probation, and as Senior Coverage Adviser to the NYC Mayor’s Workplace of Prison Justice. He additionally pioneered efforts at community-based alternate options to incarceration in NYC and Washington DC as founder and govt director of the Heart on Juvenile and Prison Justice and Justice Coverage Institute, respectively. Schiraldi has lectured on the Columbia College College of Social Work, Harvard Legislation College, NYU College of Social Work, San Francisco College, and the Georgetown College Heart for Juvenile Justice Reform. Schiraldi acquired a Grasp’s in Social Work from New York College, and a Bachelor of Arts from Binghamton College.”
