SHANTI SETHI, HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS A DEFENSE ADVISOR BY US VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS



Shanti Sethi coordinates National Security Adviser documentation across the Vice President’s Office. According to media reports; trailblazing Indian-American US Navy veteran Shanti Sethi has joined Vice President Kamala Harris’s office as her executive secretary and defence adviser.

The first Indian-American commander of a major US Navy combat ship

From December 2010 to May 2012, Shanti Sethi commanded the guided-missile warship USS Decatur. She was also the first woman to command a US naval vessel on a visit to India.The combat exclusion law was still in effect when she joined the Navy in 1993, thus her options were limited. The Exclusion Act was lifted when she became an officer, though.

Because I was going into this extremely male-dominated industry, I was able to move on to have a professional path that was much more available to me,” Shanti Sethi told in an interview
In the early 1960s, Shanti Sethi’s father came to the United States from India.Kamala Harris is the first Indian-American woman to be elected to the position of Vice President of the United States.

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