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DNC: Schedule of speakers

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Monday, July 25: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Pam Livengood

Pam and her family of Keene, NH have been personally affected by the growing substance abuse epidemic and are guardians for their grandson because of their daughter’s struggle with addiction. Pam raised the issue with Hillary while participating at a round-table during the first trip to New Hampshire.

Monday, July 25: Wells Fargo Center

Speakers: Karla & Francisca Ortiz

Karla is an American citizen from Las Vegas, NV but her parents, including her mother, Francisca, are undocumented and live in fear of deportation. Karla met Hillary Clinton in Nevada and was featured in the campaign ad, Brave.

Monday, July 25: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Anastasia Somoza

Anastasia of New York, N.Y., along with her twin sister, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and spastic quadriplegia when she was born and is an advocate for Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Anastasia interned for Hillary Clinton in her U.S. Senate office and on the 2000 campaign for senate. Anastasia first met President Bill Clinton in 1993 at a town hall meeting for kids.

Monday, July 25: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Astrid Silva

Monday, July 25: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Sen. Bernie Sanders

Monday, July 25: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: First Lady Michelle Obama

Tuesday, July 26: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Thaddeus Desmond

Similar to Hillary’s work at the Children’s Defense Fund, Thaddeus is a child advocate social worker in Philadelphia.

Tuesday, July 26: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Dynah Haubert

Dynah, of Philadelphia, PA, is a lawyer who works for a disability rights organization and teaches those with disabilities to advocate for themselves.

Tuesday, July 26: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Kate Burdick

Kate, originally from Philadelphia, PA, is a staff attorney at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia.

Tuesday, July 26: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Anton Moore

Anton, from Philadelphia, PA, founded and runs a nonprofit community group that strives to bring awareness and educate youth on gun violence.

Tuesday, July 26: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Dustin Parsons

Dustin, from Little Rock, Arkansas, is currently a fifth grade teacher at an elementary school in his home state.

Tuesday, July 26: Wells Fargo Center

Speakers: Students from Eagle Academy

As a senator, Hillary Clinton supported the creation of the Eagle Academy to educate at-risk youth in New York City. Eagle Academy was featured in the ad Came Through during the New York primary.

Tuesday, July 26: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Joe Sweeney

Joe, of New York, NY, was a detective with the NYPD on September 11, 2001. When the towers were hit, he rushed down to the World Trade Center and began digging through the rubble for survivors.

Tuesday, July 26: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Lauren Manning

Lauren was a former executive and partner at Cantor Fitzgerald. She is one of the most catastrophically wounded survivors of 9/11. Lauren battled single digit odds of survival, spending more than six months in the hospital and fought recovering through the next decade from an 82.5% total body burn. Lauren asked then Senator Hillary Clinton to support the injured and she has remained unflagging in her commitment and dedication.

Tuesday, July 26: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Ryan Moore

Ryan, originally from South Sioux City, NE, has spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia dwarfism and has known Hillary Clinton since 1994 when his family came to Washington, DC for an event to advocate for health care reform. Brian Moore, Ryan’s father, lost his job when his employer was unwilling to cover treatment for Ryan’s health condition. Ryan has stayed in contact with Hillary ever since.

Tuesday July 26: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: President Bill Clinton

Tuesday, July 26: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Mothers of the Movement

Wednesday, July 27: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Erica Smegielski

Erica’s mother Dawn was the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary and was killed while trying to protect her students. Since then, Erica has become an outspoken advocate for commonsense gun violence prevention measures. Erica was featured in the ad, My Mom.

Wednesday, July 27: Wells Fargo Center

Speakers: Felicia Sanders & Polly Sheppard

Felicia and Polly are two of the three survivors of the Mother Emanuel Church shooting in Charleston, SC.

Wednesday, July 27: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Jamie Dorff

Jamie’s husband was Patrick Dorff, an Army helicopter pilot from Minnesota who died while on a search and rescue mission in northern Iraq. As a senator, Hillary worked with Republicans and Democrats to increase the gratuity paid to family members of fallen veterans from $12,000 to $100,000.

Wednesday, July 27: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Sen. Tim Kaine to accept vice presidential nomination.

Wednesday, July 27: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Vice President Joe Biden

Wednesday, July 27: Wells Fargo Center

President Barack Obama

Thursday, July 28: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Henrietta Ivey

Henrietta is a home care worker Hillary met while campaigning in Michigan who is helping to lead the Fight for $15.

Thursday, July 28: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Beth Mathias

Beth works two jobs and her husband works the nightshift at a factory in Ohio. Hillary met Beth at a roundtable in Marion.

Thursday, July 28: Wells Fargo Center

Speakers: Jensen Walcott & Jake Reed

Jensen was fired from her job at a pizza restaurant in Bonner Springs, KS for asking her boss why she was paid 25 cents less than her male co-worker and friend, Jake. After Jensen and Jake’s story came to light, Hillary tweeted “Good for you, Jensen. Every woman deserves equal pay, no matter what her age. Keep up the hard work—and courage!”

Thursday, July 28: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Khizr Khan

Khizr Khan’s son, Humayun S. M. Khan was a University of Virginia graduate and enlisted in the U.S. Army. Khan was one of 14 American Muslims who died serving the United States in the ten years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Clinton spoke extensively about Kahn during a speech in Minneapolis.

Thursday, July 28: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Chelsea Clinton

Thursday, July 28: Wells Fargo Center

Speaker: Hillary Clinton

Source: For more information, go to www.demconvention.com.


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