Emma Green

She left her former role in the administration at the end of the summer, although she's still advising them on the university deals.

One of the things that she was responsible for coordinating was this higher education agenda.

So she would take the policy directives from the Domestic Policy Council, the White House, the president, and she would make sure that there was this coordinated effort across the different agencies.

There was an anti-Semitism task force with representatives from Department of Justice, Health and Human Services, Department of Education.

They would report up to her, tell her what was going on.

But she would also make sure that when there was going to be an action, when they were going to take on a school or take on an issue, that they were marching in lockstep, that all of the different agencies were aligned, that they were going to take actions of their own.

And it created this kind of remarkable effect.

It was almost like a strike force effect.

where when the administration decided to take on a particular school, they would have these series of letters or press statements or announcements that would happen, boom, boom, boom, one right after another.

It was all lined up.

I think that's right.

Her position is not a senior, meaning she's not the person at that senior, you know, shot-calling level.

But she was running the show, and this is a description I've gotten from her and from lots of allies in the administration.

She, you know, tries to be modest about it, right?

She's the coordinator, the implementer.

But in terms of the person who was actually making the agenda actually happening on the ground, it was Mae Mailman.

So she grew up in Kansas in a pretty rural community that's pretty white.

Her mom is Korean.

Her dad is white.

So she's biracial.