Eugene Kang (born 1984) was the Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to President

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. O ...

. Eugene Kang is an Ann Arbor native who attended Greenhills School before enrolling at the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

. At Michigan, Kang made a 2005 bid for the Ann Arbor City Council. He later worked on Senator Amy Klobuchar's ( D- Minn.) 2006 campaign. During Obama's Presidential campaign he worked in the political division. A second-generation Korean American, he was also a part of the

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s and

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s National Leadership Council. Kang has been described as a "close confidant to President Obama" and has played eleven rounds of golf with the President from the time he took office through 2013.

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