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Kristie Canegallo (born 1979) is a U.S. government official serving as the acting United States deputy secretary of homeland security (DHS) since July 2023. She joined DHS in January 2022 as its chief of staff. Canegallo was a White House deputy chief of staff for policy implementation from 2014 to 2017.




Career


Canegallo was born in 1979 and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts by a single mother who was a school teacher. She earned a B.A. from Colgate University in 2001. Following graduation, she worked for Goldman Sachs on Wall Street for three years. She completed a M.A. in strategic studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 2004.
Canegallo is a member of the Democratic Party. Beginning in 2005, she took an unpaid internship with the United States Department of Defense. In 2007, she worked at the Embassy of the United States, Kabul for five months. The next year, she worked in Iraq for a United States Marine Corps unit on governance issues during the Anbar campaign.
In October 2008, Canegallo began working with the National Security Council during the Bush administration. She served as its director for defense policy and later senior advisor Denis McDonough, the U.S. deputy national security advisor. She worked there until 2012. From 2014 to 2017, she was an assistant to the president and a White House deputy chief of staff. Her responsibilities included the execution of the Affordable Care Act and health care, immigration, and cybersecurity.
Canegallo was Google's vice president of trust and safety from 2018 to 2021, where she led the global team that developed and enforced Google's product policies to keep people safe while using Google products.
In January 2022, she became the chief of staff at the United States Department of Homeland Security. She has worked on policies regarding migrants and asylum seekers at the Mexico–United States border and Title 42 expulsions. In June 2023, it was announced that she would become acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security on July 21, following the retirement of John Tien.




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• Jen Psaki
• Alejandro Mayorkas
• Daniel Pfeiffer
• Ben Rhodes (White House staffer)