Eugene Kang is the Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to President

President of the United States

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 Barack Obama

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Eugene Kang is an Ann Arbor native who attended Greenhills School before enrolling at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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. At Michigan, Kang made a 2005 bid for the Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, Michigan

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 City Council. He later worked on Senator Amy Klobuchar

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) 2006 campaign. During Obama's Presidential campaign he worked in the political division. A second-generation Korean American

Korean American

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, he was also a part of the Asian American

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s and Pacific Islander

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s National Leadership Council.

Kang has been described as a "close confidant to [President] Obama" and has played golf with the President.

External links

• Blog at Organizing for America
  Organizing for America
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