White House Liaison to African-Americans to Leave for Nonprofit

Heather Foster, the White House’s lead liaison to the African-American community who helped coordinate President Obama’s response to the Charleston shooting, and Ferguson and Baltimore riots, is leaving her post to join the new White House-backed initiative to help young men of color.

Foster, an adviser in the White House Office of Public Engagement for the last four years, will join the nonprofit My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, which focuses on helping young men of color. She is slated to begin in the fall and will help coordinate public-private partnerships for the corporate-backed nonprofit. The launch of the nonprofit was announced by Obama in May and aims to improve access to early education, keep boys of color out of the criminal justice system, and prepare them for entering the workforce.