A Conversation with DNC Chair Jaime Harrison

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Please join us in a warm welcome for DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, as he meets with Democrats Abroad UK over breakfast in London and online on Friday, March 3rd, 2023, 8:30am-10:00am GMT. The meeting will be hosted by DAUK Chair, Wen-Wen Lindroth. We also welcome to the UK another special guest, Candice Kerestan, DA International Chair.

Chair Jaime Harrison will discuss the successes of the 2022 Midterm Election, DNC priorities and the plan to win back the House and more in 2024.

This is a fantastic opportunity for DAUK members to meet the head of our parent organization and to put forward your questions and ideas to Chair Harrison.

Please RSVP below to receive the meeting address and Zoom link. The in-person room has limited capacity, therefore please RSVP early, ideally by Wednesday, March 1st.

While there will be no charge to attend, we strongly encourage you to sign up for DAUK's sustaining donor program, for $5, $10 or as much as you would like per month. Your financial support is critical for our GOTV activities and events like these. If you are already a sustaining donor, a ticket will be reserved for you.

We look forward to seeing you on Friday morning for this intimate gathering with Jaime!

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This event is closed to the press.

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Biographies

Jaime Harrison, DNC Chair 
Columbia, South Carolina

As the son of a single teenage mom, Jaime Harrison was raised by his grandparents in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Jaime knows what it’s like for a family to have to choose between paying the electric bill and putting food on the table, and what it feels like to go to sleep in a home with no heat, because the power was shut off.

But thanks to a good public school education, the love of his family, and the support of his community, Jaime was able to earn a scholarship to Yale University and attend Georgetown Law. After college, Jaime came back home to Orangeburg to teach at his old high school, then worked to help empower disadvantaged kids to attend college. Jaime also served as an aide to legendary South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn. In 2013, Jaime was elected the first African American chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, a position he held until 2017, when he was appointed by DNC Chair Tom Perez as an Associate Chair of the DNC. In 2020, Jaime ran for the U.S. Senate from South Carolina, building a national grassroots movement and setting a fundraising record for the most raised by a Senate candidate. Jaime and his wife Marie live in Columbia, South Carolina, where they raise their two young sons.

Wen-Wen Lindroth, Democrats Abroad UK Chair
London, UK - votes in Irvine, California

As the current Chair of DAUK, Wen-Wen leads the largest Democratic country committee outside of the US in a volunteer capacity. She joined Democrats Abroad in early 2017, and since then has focused on expanding our vote from abroad, while embedding progressive economic and environmental policies as part of the Democrats Abroad platform.

Wen-Wen is the daughter of Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants who came to the US in the 1960s to pursue the American dream. She was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and holds a bachelor’s degree from MIT and three master’s degrees from Stanford and Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service. Wen-Wen began her political activism in the 1980s as a supporter of LGBTQ+ rights during the height of the AIDS crisis. She is an ardent champion of women’s economic empowerment, having introduced paid maternity leave at her former firm and served as Global Chair of Gender Equality at her current firm. She has authored several pieces and a TED Talk on economic populism and is now writing a series on global demographics. Wen-Wen has worked as an investor in the global financial markets for 24 years. 

Candice Kerestan, DA International Chair & DNC Youth Council Vice Chair
Munich, Germany - votes in PA

A Central Pennsylvania native, Candice Kerestan has lived in Germany for the past eight years and currently serves as International Chair of Democrats Abroad (DA), the official arm of the Democratic Party responsible for engaging and mobilizing the more than nine million U.S. citizens living overseas. She is the youngest currently serving Democratic state party chair, and the second youngest in Democratic Party history. In her role, Ms. Kerestan works with on-the-ground organizers in nearly every country to find new voters and activate existing voters abroad – with the overarching goal of delivering even more votes for Democrats across the United States in 2023 and 2024.

Ms. Kerestan previously served as Chair of DA Germany and as the Regional Leader for the Cologne-Bonn area in Germany. She holds degrees in Political Science and German and is currently pursuing her PhD in Political Science at the University of Bonn where she also works as a translator in the areas of sociology, law, and political science.

WHEN

Friday, March 03, 2023 at 08:30 AM London Time

WHERE

London Mayfair address upon RSVP
London, England
United Kingdom
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CONTACT

Wen-Wen Lindroth, Chair
[email protected]

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