Team Obama: Where are they now?

Former Obama aides Robert Gibbs and Ben LaBolt announced this week they were starting a new consulting firm, the Incite Agency.

They’re just the latest high-profile White House aides to branch out from Team Obama.

A few familiar faces from the first term remain at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., but there’s been a steady turnover.

Here’s a slideshow of where some of Obama’s senior White House aides are today.

Robert Gibbs

After trading barbs with the press for most of Obama’s first term, Gibbs has become a frequent sight on cable news. He’s now started the Incite Agency consulting firm with former Obama campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt. 

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David Axelrod

Formerly a senior adviser to President Obama, Axelrod is now director of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.

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Bill Burton

The former press secretary and special assistant to Obama left the White House to run Priorities USA Action, a pro-Obama super-PAC. Burton more recently joined the public relations firm Global Strategy Group as an executive vice president and managing director.

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Nancy Anne Deparle

Obama’s deputy chief of staff for policy served as director of the White House Office of Health Reform but departed early this year for the Brookings Institution and to lecture at Harvard Law School.

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Jon Favreau

Obama’s favorite speechwriter left the White House in March to pursue a career as a Hollywood screenwriter.

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Valerie Jarrett

Longtime Obama confidante Jarrett remains at the White House, serving as a senior adviser to the president.

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Bill Daley

Daley replaced Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff in January 2011. He left a year later and is now exploring a gubernatorial campaign in Illinois.

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Stephanie Cutter

Obama’s reelection deputy campaign manager teamed up with fellow deputy campaign manager Jennifer O’Malley Dillon and digital director Teddy Goff to start Precision Strategies, a business and political consulting firm.

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Rahm Emanuel

Obama’s first chief of staff left the White House in 2010 to successfully run for mayor of Chicago.

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Pete Rouse

The low-profile Rouse served as an interim chief of staff between Rahm Emanuel and William Daley. He’s still at the White House, where he serves as counselor to the president.

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Cass Sunstein

Sunstein, the former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is teaching at Harvard Law School.

Photo courtesy of Harvard Law School

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Jennifer Psaki

A spokeswoman for both of Obama’s campaigns, Psaki is now a spokeswoman for the State Department.  

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Kal Penn

Actor Kal Penn served as an associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Since leaving the White House, Penn resumed his acting career and also hosts the Discovery Channel’s “The Big Brain Theory,” a show were engineers compete on design projects.

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David Plouffe

Obama’s 2008 campaign manager and senior adviser is now an analyst for Bloomberg News.

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Desirée Rogers

Obama’s White House social secretary left in February 2010. She serves as CEO of the Johnson Publishing Company. In May, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointed Rogers chairwoman of the Choose Chicago board, a nonprofit that aims to bring tourism to Chicago.

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Austan Goolsbee

The former chairman of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers returned to the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, where his research focuses on government policy, taxes and the economy.