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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
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