Democratic Men's Committee

The featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon will be Deacon Craig LaGier, St. Vincent Advisor and Minister to the Homeless at St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Community. He also serves as Chaplin for the Carson City Sheriff's Office. Deacon Craig is also the Founding Director of the Night Off The Streets program, or NOTS for short. To reduce the risk of ill healh or death due to hypothermia, NOTS provides overnight shelter at local churches to people without homes.

The featured speaker at Monday's Carson City Democratic luncheon will be Nevada's First Lady, Kathy Sisolak. This will be a unique opportunity for the governor's better half to introduce herself, talk about her extensive career in public life, and discuss the issues and causes she feels most passionate about.

Monday's Democratic luncheon will feature a presentation by Donald Easton-Brooks Ph.D., Dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Nevada-Reno. The theme of his remarks will be the need for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) to be a major part of engaging with today's communities. With people of color already representing 50% of the U.S.

Monday's Democratic luncheon will feature a town hall by Carson City Sheriff Sheriff Kenneth T. Furlong. As always he is prepared to field questions on any and all topics on the minds of Carsonites, from whether black lives matter to whether Nevadans should defund the police. Kenny is the 26th sheriff to serve Carson City and Ormsby County since 1861 (not counting Sheriff Chon Wang, played by Jackie Chan in Shanghai Knights).

Elissa Cadish, Associate Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court, will be the featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon. Justice Cadish was elected in the November 2018 general election, filling the seat vacated by Michael Cherry. Her term ends in January, 2025. At the luncheon she will explain what the court does and discuss some noteworthy cases she has participated in deciding.

Steve Hedrick, Program Director of the Capital City C.I.R.C.L.E.S. Initiative will be the featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon. C.I.R.C.L.E.S. is a cooperative community effort to elevate people out of poverty by intentionally creating relationships across class lines, and empowering them to chart their own course towards self-sufficiency.

Middle East history buff Howard Beckerman will lead an in-depth conversation about the historical roots of the multiple Middle Eastern conflicts and blood feuds at Monday's Democratic luncheon.

The proud husband of Nevada Supreme Court Justice Elissa Cadish and proud father of teenage daughter Shayna, Howard describes himself as a "seeker of knowledge in a never-ending quest to understand the root causes of why and how." And it shows.

The featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon will be Adam Keller, spokesperson for Gush Shalom ("Peace Bloc"), an extra-parliamentary organization, independent of any political party. The group objects to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, and opposes Israel's policies of blockade and non-recognition of the Gaza Strip. They support a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, with the Green Line as the border except for minor exchanges of territories, and with Jerusalem as the capital of both states.

The featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon will be Sam Shad, host of Nevada Newsmakers, the state’s premier news and political program. Sam has been covering Nevada politics on radio, television, online and via podcasts for the past 27 years. During this time he has interviewed every major political figure in the Silver State. He was inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2000.

The featured speaker at Carson City's June 21st Democratic luncheon will be James DeHaven, state politics reporter for the Reno Gazette Journal and the USA Today Network.

The featured speaker at Carson City's June 14th Democratic luncheon will be wild horse and burro ecologist and biologist Craig Downer. His appearance follows on from the extended presentation on climate change he gave at the April 26th tele-luncheon, when there was insufficient time to summarize the points made or engage in a question and answer session with in-person attendees and those who took advantage of the full-length, on-demand video recording. All those seeking such clarifications are encouraged to attend.

The featured speaker at Monday's Carson City Democratic tele-luncheon will be Laura E. Perkins, incumbent Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) regent for District 1 (North Las Vegas). She was sworn in on January 16, 2019 after winning 62% of the vote in a four-way race in the November, 2018 general election.

Ever-popular TMCC political science professor Fred Lokken will be the featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon. Prof. Lokken's presentation will include an assessment of President Biden's first 100 days, prospects for passage of his ambitious agenda, a review of where the legislative session stands going into the final week, and electoral prospects for the all-important 2022 midterms.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Annette Magnus, Executive Director of the progressive advocacy group Battle Born Progress. Her presentation will address the opportunities being realized by receipt of $2.7 billion in pandemic relief funds, as well as programs put at risk by the court-ordered rebate of $105 million in taxes levied over the 2019-2021 biennium.

The featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be biologist Craig Downer, who will explain how climate change is impacting Nevada's herds of wild horses and burros. Over the years, he has collected data from more than fifty herd management areas, and supplied the BLM and the public with valuable research based on hundreds of scientifically based ecological evaluations.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Elizabeth Haase MD, Medical Director of Behavioral Health at Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center. A psychiatrist with decades in private practice, Dr. Haase also serves as part of the voluntary faculty at the University of Nevada-Reno School of Medicine. The focus of her remarks at the tele-luncheon will be the mental health impacts of climate change.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Ali Banister, Chief Juvenile Probation Officer for Carson City Juvenile Services. In addition to those duties, she also serves as an adjunct professor at Western Nevada College teaching juvenile law. At the tele-luncheon she will detail the range of juvenile services currently available in Carson City, with special emphasis on the psychological toll the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on the community's young people and their educational experience.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Sam Metz, capital reporter for the Associated Press and a corps member of the Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program, sponsored by the Boston-based GroundTruth Project, that develops fellowships aimed at talented, early-career journalists of different mediums, including print, photography, film and radio broadcast.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Mark Bettencourt, Project Director for the Nevada Coalition Against the Death Penalty (NVCADP). The Coalition is a diverse group of community members and organizations who use the voices of impacted individuals to shed light on the darkness of capital punishment and why it must be repealed.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Elliott Parker, PhD, Economics professor at the University of Nevada-Reno and Nevada's Second Gentleman.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Margarida Jorge, Executive Director of Health Care for America Now, or HCAN, a 501(c)(4) advocacy group that speaks on behalf of more than 1,000 organizations nationwide. In 2008 Margarida helped create and lead HCAN's campaign to overhaul the US health care system and extend insurance coverage to most of the country's previously uninsured population, and was chief architect of the organization's 47-state field program.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Alexander Marks, Communications Director for the Nevada State Education Association. A school union, the NSEA is the largest education association in the state of Nevada, and is an affiliate of the National Education Association. Using a PowerPoint, Alex will present background information and research reports on a variety of issues affecting education in Nevada.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Christine Saunders, Policy Director at Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada.

A Master of Social Work graduate with five years of non-profit organizing experience, Christine has focused on the development, management, implementation, and support of social justice programming and policy advocacy campaigns.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Ed Komenda, Las Vegas reporter for the Reno Gazette Journal. His presentation's primary focus will be on how Cliven Bundy's rhetoric could help fan the flames of far-right extremism in Nevada.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Sarah Adler, Principal at Silver State Government Relations. She will be speaking on behalf of the Nevada Housing Coalition, a group dedicated to the expansion of affordable housing solutions in the Silver State.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Annette Magnus, Executive Director of Battle Born Progress. Her presentation will outline the hard choices legislators will be forced to make in the 81st session, which begins Monday.