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YEO Bios Alan Williams State Representative Tallahassee, Florida Alan Williams ran for the Florida House of Representatives and was elected in November 2008. In 2013, Williams was invited to the White House by President Obama to meet to discuss the reauthorization of the voting rights act. He has served on statewide and national policy panel sessions on education, voting rights, stand your ground laws, and affordable healthcare. While in college, Williams served as a student senator where he helped re-establish FAMU’s College of Law and establish the university’s first intercampus transportation system. In 2006, he founded MW Land & Investments, a property management and business development firm that promotes business ownership and drives business back into the local community. MW Land & Investments also actively recruits local youth and young professionals to provide them with hands on experience to teach the importance of business, property, and stock ownership. The program also helps youth gain financial independence and create generational wealth. Faith Winter State Representative Westminster, Colorado State Representative Faith Winter was previously the mayor pro-tem of Westminster, Colorado. She currently serves as the program director for Colorado Conservation Voters. Winter has spent her entire career inspiring people to action, training thousands of women to run for office at the White House Project, and engaging her constituents on important issues facing Westminster. In 2004, she was named winner of Youth Vote 30 people under 30. In 2008, she was named one of the top 10 most influential women in Denver by the Denver Examiner, and in 2010 she was named woman of the year by Colorado Business and Professional Women–Northwest Chapter. Winter loves organizing because she believes the best way to create change is by building power through people. @FaithKWinter Robert Wittenberg State Representative Robert Wittenberg is in his first term representing Michigan’s 27th House District. Wittenberg was raised in Huntington Woods, attended Berkley High School and currently resides in Oak Park. He graduated from Indiana University with a B.S. in business management, and while at IU, he served as Speaker of the House for the Indiana University Student Association, founder and president of the Hillel Business Leadership Initiative, and the Dean of Students’ appointee to the Commission on Multicultural Understanding. Before joining the legislature, Wittenberg worked for more than nine years as a licensed life and health insurance agent, helping to enroll businesses and individuals on health insurance plans, most recently those that are YEO National Convening | 2015 Oak Park, Michigan 100