Dream Big, Fight Hard

Senator Elizabeth Warren

Friday, 03 May 2019 at 1:45 pm – South Ballroom, Memorial Union

Doors open at 12:45pm | No tickets or reserved seating

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is a senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. She was a law professor for 30 years before her election to public office in 2012. Warren’s career has focused on advocating for middle class families and small businesses. She served as Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and subsequently helped establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2011 as an assistant to President Barack Obama and special adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury. She currently serves on the Committee on Armed Services; the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee; and the Special Committee on Aging, where she is focused on supporting and strengthening Social Security and Medicare. Statements about key issues, including student debt cancellation, anti-corruption reform, protecting voting rights, and criminal justice reform are available at elizabethwarren.com.

Part of the Campaign Series in 2019, providing the university community with opportunities to question candidates before the Iowa Caucuses.
Senator Warren academic career included nearly 20 years as the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she was twice recognized her with the Sacks-Freund Award for excellence in teaching. She taught courses on commercial law, contracts, and bankruptcy and wrote more than a hundred articles and ten books, including four national best-sellers, This Fight is Our Fight, A Fighting Chance, The Two-Income Trap, and All Your Worth. National Law Journal named her one of the Most Influential Lawyers of the Decade, TIME Magazine has named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world four times, and she has been honored by the Massachusetts Women's Bar Association with the Lelia J. Robinson Award.

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  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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