Deesha Dyer

Deesha Dyer
Deesha Dyer in the Green Room of the White House after the completion of the France State Dinner.
30th White House Social Secretary
In office
April 16, 2015 – January 20, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byJeremy Bernard
Succeeded byAnna Cristina Niceta Lloyd
Deputy White House Social Secretary
In office
2013 – April 16, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Personal details
Born (1978-01-15) January 15, 1978 (age 46)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materCommunity College of
Philadelphia

Milton Hershey School

Deesha Dyer (born 1978) is an American public servant who served as the White House Social Secretary for U.S. President Barack Obama from 2015 to 2017. Dyer also served as Deputy to the previous Social Secretary, Jeremy Bernard. She is currently the CEO of Hook & Fasten, a social-impact consulting company.

She is a 2019 Resident Fellow for the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics.[1]

In 2024 she released her biography, "Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble".[2]

  1. ^ "About". Deesha Dyer. Archived from the original on November 22, 2022. Retrieved September 24, 2023.
  2. ^ Dyer, Deesha (May 19, 2024). Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble. Grand Central. ISBN 978-1-5387-4169-6.