Joshua DuBois to Lead White House Office for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Industry Newsmakers On February 5, 2009, President Barack Obama named Joshua DuBois as executive director of the newly reauthorized White House Office for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Mr. DuBois will ensure that the office engages with faith-based organizations in a constitutional manner, and will work through the White House Counsel to seek the advice of the Attorney General on difficult legal and constitutional issues. Mr. DuBois holds a Master’s degree in public affairs. In 2008, at the age of 25, he was appointed director of religious affairs for the Obama presidential campaign . . .