Last year, Kiran Ahuja was nominated and confirmed as head of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the agency responsible for millions of federal civilian employees. Ahuja, who hails from Savannah, Georgia, is the first Indian American woman to take the post.
She’s a Windsor Forest High School graduate and earned her bachelor’s degree in political science at Spelman College before graduating from the University of Georgia Law School.
Ahuja said that spending her formative years in Savannah as an Indian immigrant influenced her life’s work.
“Being part of the new wave of immigration into Georgia really shaped my appreciation for how important it is to really build bridges across different communities (and) how to give back to your communities,” she said.
In addition to being an attorney for the Department of Justice, Ahuja has had more than two decades of public service and executive nonprofit experience. She’s been an advocate for the Asian American community in and outside of the government.
In 2009, Ahuja was named the executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Before then, she was the founding executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF).
Now, Ahuja leads the OPM, the largest employer in the country at nearly 2.2 million federal employees. The agency is responsible for federal human resources policy, including benefits management, life insurance and retirement for government...
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