Cameron MacPherson
Syracuse University
Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
Foreign Affairs
Cameron is now the Deputy Chief of Staff for the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, after previously serving as the Senior Legal Assistant in the White House Counsel’s Office. Prior to that, he served as a Legislative Assistant to Congresswoman Katie Porter. And prior to that, he served as a Staff Assistant on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in Washington, DC. As a Mitchell Scholar Class of 2019, he studied Intercultural Theology & Interreligious Studies at Trinity College Dublin. At Syracuse as an undergraduate, Cameron studied the Congolese refugee community and the role that faith plays in their resettlement. In summer 2017, he received a grant to conduct research on grassroots social organizations in Boston’s Congolese community. He volunteered with Writing Our Lives, a creative literacy program for local middle school students, leading poetry workshops and units in oral history and journalism. As a senior, Cameron was named a Remembrance Scholar, one of SU’s highest honors created to remember the victims from Pan Am flight 103. He was also recognized as a First Team Academic All-American for his academic accomplishments and athletic contributions to the Division I Syracuse Football team. He is a spoken word poet. Cameron is a graduate of Syracuse University which degrees in International Relations and Television, Radio, and Film and a Master’s degree in Pan-African Studies at Syracuse University.