Janet Yellen, an emeritus professor at the University of California at Berkeley, is president-elect Joseph Biden’s pick for treasury secretary, university officials said Tuesday.

Yellen is the former chair of the Federal Reserve System, which steers the nation’s banking system. She was the first woman to sit in that role and will be the first woman to lead the U.S. Treasury Department if she is confirmed by the Senate.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.