WASHINGTON: Days before Joe Biden becomes president, incoming first lady Jill Biden is taking a step toward fulfilling a campaign promise to revive a support program for military families that she once led with former first lady Michelle Obama.
Jill Biden on Thursday was naming an executive director of that program, known as Joining Forces.
Rory Brosius, 37, is on the president-elect’s transition team and was a senior adviser to Jill Biden during the campaign. Brosius previously was deputy director of Joining Forces.
Military families still needed support, Brosius told The Associated Press in a telephone interview before she was to join Jill Biden for a virtual listening session with organizations that support military families.
We’ll be spending the next few months listening and learning, said Brosius, the wife of a Marine Corps veteran. The community supported by Joining Forces is the community that I’m part of.
Mrs. Obama and Jill Biden, as the wife of then-Vice President Joe…