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           Genie Chough currently serves as Deputy to Supervisor Zev Yaroslavksy, advising him on policy and fiscal matters pertaining to the $23 billion Los Angeles County budget since February 2006. Genie has extensive experience at the federal and state levels of government working on health and human services issues, as well as the local level, as a consultant to the Department of Children and Family Services.

Prior to joining the County, she was appointed by the Governor in 2001 to serve as Assistant Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency in Sacramento and Ex Officio member of the First 5 California Commission. Genie previously worked in the White House under the Clinton Administration as Assistant Director of the Domestic Policy Council, as well as for the Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget of the US Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC.

Genie is a native of Los Angeles, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy.