Send tips | Subscribe here | Email Alex | Email Tina Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. With help from Allie Bice and Eugene Daniels Earlier this month, a few dozen women of color across the Biden administration organized an unofficial private brunch. In one of the first social gatherings for many as the country began opening up, the group had two guests of honor: longtime Democratic operatives LEAH DAUGHTERY and MINYON MOORE . Moore, the former director of White House political affairs in the Clinton administration who is now a principal at the Dewey Square Group, is low-key but has become an influential outside adviser in the Biden administration. She has a network that goes back decades which includes counselor STEVE RICCHETTI. She has also been a mentor to many of the administration’s women of color (Moore is Black). And she has been particularly influential with the administration’s most senior woman of color, Vice President KAMALA HARRIS, according to several people familiar with the dynamic. During the Biden transition this past winter, Harris turned to Moore to run point on assembling her vice presidential office, as POLITICO first reported . “It was natural for Vice President Harris to ask Minyon to help her initially design what her team would look like,” said DONNA BRAZILE, a friend of Moore’s going back to their time working on JESSE JACKSON’s 1988 campaign. Brazile and Moore are part of a small group of experienced Black woman operatives who call themselves the “colored girls.” “Minyon is probably on speed dial, I'm just on call when needed,” Brazile said of Moore’s relationship with the administration. Moore, sometimes called “Minnie,” is a Chicago native and former advertising associate at Encyclopedia Britannica who first got into politics as a youth organizer on HAROLD WASHINGTON’s mayoral campaign and eventually field director on Reverend Jackson’s 1988 campaign. The D.C. transition was easy for her as she worked in the Clinton administration, became CEO of the Democratic National Committee, and then a confidante to HILLARY CLINTON during her 2008 and 2016 presidential runs. While Harris shaped her team alongside President JOE BIDEN, the most important role in the vice president’s office, chief of staff, notably went to one of Moore’s closest allies and friends: TINA FLOURNOY, who is also part of the club of Black women operatives. “There's no question, I think that's undeniable,” Brazile said of Moore’s influence on the chief of staff pick. Moore prefers to lay low. When told we were writing a profile about Moore, Daughtery said: “Woo child. She ain't gonna be happy.” “She’s trusted because she keeps everything in the vault,” said JENNIFER PALMIERI, the former White House communications director, who called West Wing Playbook unprompted to chat about Moore, whom she worked with going back to the 90’s. She instead works it behind the scenes. “She's not someone to publicly execute her enemies,” said Brazile. An administration official who was not authorized to talk to West Wing Playbook added: “Minyon is as private as people of her caliber get. She doesn’t do TV, she doesn’t put her name on the record often. She prefers to wield actual power.” Do you work in the Biden administration? Are you in touch with the White House? Are you CONNOLLY KEIGHER? We want to hear from you — and we’ll keep you anonymous: westwingtips@politico.com. Or if you want to stay really anonymous send us a tip through SecureDrop, Signal, Telegram, or Whatsapp here. | 
