Sameera Fazili with Joe Biden, the new US President The crisis-ridden White House will have two Kashmir women when Joe Biden will take over, next week. After Kashmir born Ayesha Shah, now it is Sameera Fazili who will be Joe Biden’s Deputy Director of National Economic Council. Ms Fazili, a mother of three, will be focusing on manufacturing, innovation and domestic competition. She goes to the White House from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta where she was Director of engagement for the community and economic development. Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed, she had served as a senior policy adviser at the White House’s National Economic Council where she covered retirement, consumer finance, and community and economic development. Before joining the government, Fazili was a clinical lecturer at Yale Law School’s community and economic development clinic, where she helped start a CDFI bank and a local anti-foreclosure initiative, and expanded the clinic’s work to international micro-finance. She also worked at Shore Bank, the nation’s first CDFI bank. She is the second generation American who was born in Williamsville New York to Drs Yusuf and Rafiqa Fazili.