Prior to her work with the Biden Administration, she was the Chief of Staff of ONDCP under President Barack Obama.
As Acting Director, LaBelle led the office in developing the Biden Administration’s drug policy priorities, including a historic focus on harm reduction programs in an effort to address the overdose epidemic.
[2] Early in her career, LaBelle served as Legal Counsel to Mayor Greg Nickels.
[3] This included identifying executive branch opportunities to expand access to parental leave for adoptive parents where none had previously existed, revising executive branch policies to increase access to services for same-sex couples (prior to marriage equality), and identifying administrative actions to improve gun safety at the local level in the face of state gun safety preemption laws.
In 2009, LaBelle was appointed to a senior policy advisor to the Director of ONDCP, where she served until January 2017.