Recently confirmed US transportation secretary, Pete Buttiegieg, has selected out gay Arizona state representative, Arlando Teller, to be one of his assistant secretaries.
Teller is a member of the Navajo Nation – a native American indigenous tribe – so he is now taking on the role of deputy assistant secretary of tribal affairs in the US department of transportation.
He told the Washington Blade: “Elevating Indigenous nations’ by the Biden administration only invigorates and encourages me to do more.
Representation matters.”Pete ButtigiegTeller is now the second Navajo person to join the Biden administration, after Wahleah Johns was appointed a directory position in the US department of energy.