Rukmani Bhatia is the senior federal affairs manager at Giffords, where she helps manage the organizations federal legislative strategy and works with members of Congress and their staff to advance gun safety legislation. She previously served as the senior policy analyst for gun violence prevention at the Center for American Progress, as well as served in the Obama administration and as the inaugural Hillary R. Clinton research fellow for the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace & Security. Rukmani received her Bachelors degree with honors from Wellesley College and her Masters degree from Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.