Remi Yamamoto is the senior advisor for communications to the

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Early life and education

Yamamoto is from

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. She attended

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, graduating in 2010. She studied at

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, completing her

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in 2013.

Career

In 2013, after graduating from college, Yamamoto served an internship for the Obama administration's communications office. Yamamoto served as a regional press secretary (Virginia) for the 2016 presidential campaign of

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. In 2017 she was press secretary for Tom Perriello's Virginia gubernatorial campaign. In October 2017 she was hired as

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for the failed Iowa gubernatorial campaign for Democrat Fred Hubbell. During the Biden Harris 2020 Campaign for president, Yamamoto was the traveling national press secretary. In a December 18, 2020

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Yamamoto was named Senior Advisor for Communications to the Chief of Staff.

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