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Serves as Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Prior to joining the Biden-Harris Administration, she served as a Deputy Campaign Manager on the Biden-Harris presidential campaign. Before that, she was the National Political Director and traveling Chief of Staff for then-Senator Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. Before launching Senator Harris’ campaign, she served as California State Director in her Senate office. During the Obama-Biden Administration, Chavez Rodriguez served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Deputy Director of Public Engagement in the Office of Public Engagement. She also worked in the Department of the Interior as the Director of Youth Employment and as Deputy Press Secretary to former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. She is the former Director of Programs at the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation. A native of California, she is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.

He is an information systems administrator from Purdue University, Indiana, United States. He has a master's degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in finance, from the Madrid Business Institute, Spain. He was secretary of Economic Development of the Atlantic and general manager of the Puerta de Oro Caribbean Events Center, one of the largest infrastructure projects in the city. He has been Secretary of Mobility of Barranquilla and Manager of City Development, where he was in charge of projects of great impact, such as Siembra Barranquilla. In 2017 he was appointed Minister of Housing, City and Territory of Colombia and in 2019 he was elected as Mayor of Barranquilla.

Elected the 57th mayor of Seattle in 2021 and was sworn in as Seattle’s 54th mayor for an interim period in 2017. Harrell has a bachelor of arts in political science, as well as a JD from the University of Washington. As an attorney, he spent his early career in technology and telecommunications as an in-house attorney. He later joined a downtown firm representing employees, youth, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations. He frequently served as a mentor and coach for students and young people across South Seattle. Bruce was elected to the Seattle City Council in 2007 citywide, and re-elected twice, later serving his home district of South Seattle after City Council positions became districted. He was twice elected City Council President by his peers, one of just a few to ever serve multiple terms in that role.

Mayor of Bogotá, previously serving as a senator for the Republic of Colombia from 2014 to 2019. Her dedication to strengthening human rights and the rule of law makes her one of the most well-known contributors to democratic development in Colombia. A former researcher for New Rainbow Corporation and Civil Society Electoral Mission, she exposed the infiltration of paramilitary death squads at some of the highest levels of Colombia’s political system. Her research on the infiltration of paramilitary groups in the Colombian Congress triggered a national scandal known as “parapolitics” which led to the legal investigation of more than a third of all members of Congress. Claudia subsequently helped found the Electoral Observatory Mission, a coalition of NGOs and journalists that monitors political processes in Colombia, and worked for the New Rainbow Corporation as an analyst of illegal groups and armed conflict.

Born in Mexico de Upala, in the District of Las Delicias, the fifth daughter of Mr. José López Barahona and Mrs. Santos Obregón, who helped form the communities of Mexico and Pataste de Upala. López Obregón is 58 years old and currently lives in El Rosario de Upala, Alajuela, Costa Rica. She is the mother of three children and the grandmother of a 4-year-old boy.
López Obregón worked in the Regional Directorate of Education of the North Zone for 29 years. She was a first and second cycle teacher in three different schools and later, she was Director of Educational Centers and Supervisor of Educational Centers, as well as Pedagogical Director. At the end of 2014, she was appointed as Regional Director of Education in Cañas Guanacaste, where she positioned the Cañas region among the best places according to the Strategic Lines for the Promotion of Secondary Education and School Exclusion. After 35 years, she retired from the Ministry of Public Education in April 2018, highly satisfied with the objectives achieved in the protection and education of children, youth, and adults in the Costa Rican educational system in the Northern Zone regions and Cañas Guanacaste.

Came to Austin in 1988 to start the Texas chapter of Clean Water Action. Prior to that she had been an award-winning journalist at NPR stations in Minnesota and Philadelphia. In Austin, she was a leader in the Save Our Springs movement of 1992 which resulted in Austin’s historic SOS law to save Barton Springs.
Shea was elected to and served on the Austin city council from 1993 to 1996 where she championed consumer, electoral, and environmental reforms. She has been an advisor to the LCRA, Seton Hospital, and the City of Austin. Her carbon-reduction work won the TCEQ Environmental Excellence award in 2010. In 2014 she was elected to the Travis County Commissioners Court.
Currently, Shea is the USA Board Chair of ICLEI, Local Governments for Sustainability, the oldest UN-recognized, non-governmental organization representing local governments; Chair of the Air Quality subcommittee of the NACo EELU Committee. Shea serves on the national board of Clean Water Action, is a member of the state board of Texas Campaign for the Environment, and is a former member of the Austin Chamber of Commerce Clean Energy Council. She was selected for the 2019 Women in Government Leadership Program of Governing magazine.
Shea was recently given a Lifetime Achievement award by the Texas Energy Summit.
Brigid is a native of North Dakota. She is married to John Umphress, a former Green Building specialist with Austin Energy and beekeeping entrepreneur, and together they have two sons.

Manager of urban development and creative economies for CAF- Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-. He previously served as a director for the energy projects for the South Region at CAF. Angel Cardenas is an Eisenhower Fellow at Eisenhower Fellowships, a forum that brings leaders from around the world to spend several weeks meeting with experts in their fields of interest throughout the US in the spirit of making the world more peaceful, prosperous, and just. Cardenas has worked for the World Bank, Universidad Central de Venezuela, and the University of Toronto.

(Colombia) es la directora de la Oficina Regional de Educación de la UNESCO para América Latina y el Caribe basada en Chile. Antes de unirse a UNESCO, trabajó por más de una década para el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo donde estuvo a cargo de liderar el diálogo técnico, operaciones de préstamos y programas de cooperación