Indian-American Navy veteran Shanti Sethi appointed Kamala Harris’s defence advisor

Shanti Sethi, a trailblazing Indian-American Navy veteran, has joined US Vice President Kamala Harris’s workplace as her govt secretary and defence advisor, in response to a media report.

Sethi, the primary Indian-American commander of a significant US Navy fight ship, not too long ago joined Vice President Harris’ workplace, Politico information web site quoted vice chairman’s senior advisor Herbie Ziskend as saying.

In her new position, Sethi coordinates National Security Advisor documentation throughout the Office of the Vice President, in response to her LinkedIn profile.

Sethi commanded the guided-missile destroyer, USS Decatur, from December 2010 to May 2012. She was additionally the primary feminine commander of a US naval vessel to go to India.

When she joined the Navy in 1993, the fight exclusion legislation was nonetheless in impact so she was restricted in what she may do. However, when she was an officer, the Exclusion Act was lifted.

“I was able to move on to have a career path that was much more open to me because I was going into this very male-dominated environment,” Sethi informed USA Today in an interview final yr.

Sethi was born in Reno, Nevada. Her mother was born in Canada and have become a naturalised US citizen on the age of 12, whereas her father immigrated to the US from India within the early Sixties, the USA Today report stated.

The expertise of being within the Navy has taught her to not promote herself brief or disguise her ambition, it stated.

“You can’t be what somebody else thinks you should be,” Sethi had stated.

“You really have to become comfortable in yourself and say, ‘This is who I am, and I can succeed as who I am. I don’t have to pretend or try to be someone else.’”

Harris, the daughter of an Indian immigrant from Chennai, scripted historical past in 2021 by turning into the first-ever girl Vice President of the United States. The 57-year-old former Senator from California can also be the primary Black and first South Asian American vice chairman.