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Wednesday, April 8 2009
by Joe Halls
Kal Penn is hired as the Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison in the Obama Administration. Associated Press reported that he will help the current administration to connect with entertainment groups and communities of Asian and Pacific Islander.
The actor said that he will "do outreach with the American public and with different organizations." He has been a supporter of Obama during the presidential campaign. In fact, Penn was a speaker at the president’s inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
He is known in the films Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, The Namesake, Epic Movie, and Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, and as Dr. Lawrence Kutner in House M.D., Fox's medical mystery drama.
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