(CNN) Kamala Harris snapped up another hotly pursued campaign operative this week, CNN has learned, hiring Jalisa Washington-Price to serve as her South Carolina state director and her national deputy political director.

Washington-Price's next move became a subject of intense fascination in DC after she abruptly left her job as chief of staff at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in late January after just two months on the job.

With her deep South Carolina roots and extensive experience organizing Democratic voters at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and on the Hillary Clinton campaign, sources told CNN she had been fielding calls from multiple presidential campaigns that were clamoring to hire her.

Now that Washington-Price, who grew up in the Lower Richland area outside Columbia and attended the University of South Carolina, has signed on with Harris, she will be based in South Carolina to help organize the campaign in that pivotal state, according to two sources with knowledge of the hire. But she will also advise and direct national political efforts for the campaign.

Before serving as chief of staff at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, she was national director of the committee's Office of Diversity and helped spearhead the committee's minority voter engagement strategy.

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