Tulsi Gabbard was appointed as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) by United States President-elect Donald Trump on November 13.
- Tulsi Gabbard, 43, is an US Army reservist, and a four-time Democratic Congresswoman from Hawai’i who became the first Hindu to win a seat in the US House of Representatives in 2012.
- Born in 1981 to a Samoan-American father and a mother who hails from the American Midwest, Tulsi grew up in Hawai’i.
- It was there that her mother, Carol, took an active interest in Hinduism.
- Carol gave all her children Hindu names — Bhakti, Jai, Aryan, Tulsi and Vrindavan.
- In 2002, Tulsi, only 21 at the time, became the youngest woman to ever be elected to the Hawaii state legislature. She took oath on the Bhagavad Gita.
