Announcing our 2024 Gala Speakers!
We’re excited to announce our speakers for our 2024 Gala, on August 4th at Great Wolf Lodge! This exciting lineup of speakers will inspire us to get out the vote this fall in the most important election of our lifetime!
Gala ticket sales close next Wednesday, July 24 — so buy your tickets now before it’s too late!
Keynote speaker Elizabeth Brown is a proven progressive leader. She has championed family rights and women’s rights, while bringing people from all sides together to make voices heard and create public policy that strengthens the promise of broad-based prosperity for all.
She is currently the President and CEO of YWCA Columbus; before that, she served for seven years on the Columbus City Council, serving as president pro tempore, and also served as the executive director for the Ohio Women’s Public Policy Network. She’s also the daughter of U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, and will be speaking to us to talk about why it’s so important to reelect Sherrod Brown to the Senate.
The Honorable Greg Landsman has served in the U.S. House representing Ohio’s 1st congressional district, which includes Warren County, since we helped get him elected in November 2022.
A former public school teacher, Greg Landsman spent his career fighting for working families. Greg led the Preschool Promise initiative, which now provides two years of quality preschool for Cincinnati’s three and four year olds, and spent five years on Cincinnati City Council. Today, Greg is proud to represent Southwest Ohio in Congress, where he continues to champion what matters most to those at home: protecting our freedoms, lowering costs, and making it easier to raise a family.
Laura Marie Davis has been endorsed by the Warren County Democratic Party to represent Ohio House District 55, which includes northern and eastern Warren County, in the state legislature. She grew up in Deerfield Township and graduated from William Mason High School. She studied Biology at Case Western Reserve University and served as an AmeriCorps member in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, leading environmental education programs. Laura Marie then spent six years living in North Carolina, where she worked in community outreach & engagement for nonprofit organizations.
The 2016 election cycle and its after-effects inspired Laura Marie to get engaged in politics. She served on her local Environmental Affairs Board and Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors for several years, before making the decision to return home to southwest Ohio. Laura Marie’s professional work in public engagement aligns with her desire to serve the communities that she calls home.