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As Second Gentleman, Mr. Emhoff is working to share the priorities of the Biden-Harris Administration with people across the country and around the world.
Mr. Emhoff has traveled to 32 states, two native nations, and seven countries. During his travels, he has met with health care professionals, parents, teachers, caregivers, community leaders, legal aid providers, small-business owners in urban and rural areas, communities of color, and Tribal communities to hear their stories and to share how the Administration is working to help their families.
As the first Second Gentleman, married to the first woman vice president, Mr. Emhoff knows the power and importance of having women in leadership positions. He has seen what it has meant to young girls and boys to look up to Vice President Kamala Harris and is a champion for gender equality. Mr. Emhoff has met with gender ministers in both Japan and France and has hosted roundtable discussions with women and young girls around the world to discuss the importance of equity in the workplace, equal pay, and protecting reproductive rights and health care.
As the first Jewish spouse of an American president or vice president, Mr. Emhoff has been honored to share his Jewish heritage and culture—from celebrating Passover in the White House to affixing Mezuzahs on the doorposts of the Vice President’s Residence. Mr. Emhoff has been a leading voice on combating antisemitism and hatred wherever it exists. He convened Jewish leaders at the White House for the first of its kind roundtable to bring attention to the rise in antisemitism. He has also worked with Jewish student leaders on campus and with the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combatting Antisemitism to promote a whole-of-society approach to countering antisemitism. He regularly engages with individuals from the Jewish community as well as other faith-based groups to discuss the Administration’s priorities to strengthen religious tolerance and protect religious freedom. Mr. Emhoff has been a leading voice on combating antisemitism and hatred wherever it exists.
As a lawyer for over 30 years, Mr. Emhoff cares deeply about justice and equality in our legal system. He is an advocate for access to legal aid and removing barriers – legal, social, and financial – to ensure that every person can get the help they need to arrive at justice. In January 2020, Mr. Emhoff began teaching law courses at the Georgetown University Law Center and is enjoying the opportunity to mentor the next generation of lawyers.
Mr. Emhoff made it a top priority to encourage people to protect themselves and their communities by getting vaccinated against COVID-19. He has visited vaccine clinics in churches, community health centers, schools, stadiums, and even barbershops to raise awareness around the importance of getting vaccinated.
Based in the company’s Santa Monica office, Alison Hoffman is President, Domestic Networks for Starz. She oversees domestic network operations including all aspects of marketing and promotion, product development, distribution, analytics and program operations.
Hoffman previously served as Chief Marketing Officer for Starz. In this role, she was responsible for spearheading brand and content marketing for the network, driving acquisition for the STARZ app and delivering data-driven insights that support all facets of the business. In her role, she oversees creative strategy, media planning, acquisition marketing, product development, social marketing, program operations and analytics.
Hoffman was one of the key executives responsible for launching the STARZ app and managing the network’s direct-to-consumer business. In 2018, the STARZ app was named one of the Top 5 streaming services in the U.S., and it has consistently ranked in the Top 10 Entertainment Top Grossing category on iTunes since its launch. Over the past year, Hoffman has led Starz’s efforts to build its streaming business, delivering 70% growth year-over-year domestically and outpacing several key competitors. She has worked closely with partners including Amazon, Hulu and Apple to successfully launch STARZ on new platforms while continuing to build the STARZ brand as the premium streaming content platform appealing to female audiences around the world.
During her tenure, Hoffman launched a master brand strategy for STARZ, repositioning the network as a home for acclaimed and diverse original programming. She’s led campaigns for the entire STARZ Originals slate, including “Power,” “Outlander,” “Vida” and “American Gods” enabling Starz to compete for and retain subscribers in an increasingly competitive and fragmented television landscape. In the past year, Hoffman assumed oversight of Program Operations and built a world-class Acquisition Marketing and Insights & Analytics departments for Starz from the ground up.
She has been named to Variety’s Annual Impact Issue, Multichannel News’ Wonder Women in Streaming Awards and “Women to Watch” list as well as Cablefax’s Most Innovative People in Multiscreen. She joined Starz in 2012 after serving as Vice President of Creative and Brand Strategy at AMC Networks where she was a key architect of award-winning marketing campaigns for series such as “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad” and “The Walking Dead.”
Karyn A. Temple is Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel for the Motion Picture Association. One of the world’s leading authorities on copyright, Ms. Temple will oversee all of the Association’s legal affairs and content protection efforts around the world.
Prior to joining the Motion Picture Association, Ms. Temple served more than eight years in the U.S. Copyright Office, most recently as the Register of Copyrights, where she led the 400-person agency and its eight divisions representing law, policy, international affairs, financial operations, registration practice, public records, and outreach and education. In this role, she testified multiple times before both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate and oversaw the Office’s policy and legal activities among others.
Prior to leading the U.S. Copyright Office, Ms. Temple headed its Office of Policy and International Affairs, which includes a staff of attorneys focusing on domestic and international copyright law matters. Ms. Temple served on both U.S. delegations for the most recently adopted WIPO treaties (the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances and the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Public Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled). Ms. Temple also served in policy and litigation roles at the U.S. Department of Justice, most recently serving in the Obama Administration as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.
Ms. Temple also has extensive private-sector experience. She previously served as Vice President, Litigation and Legal Affairs for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) where she managed a wide variety of anti-piracy litigation matters on behalf of RIAA member companies. She also spent several years as a litigation associate at the prominent D.C.-based law firm Williams and Connolly LLP. Immediately after law school, Ms. Temple served as a law clerk for The Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Ms. Temple has served in several prominent volunteer positions in the copyright community, including as an elected Trustee for the Copyright Society of the USA, co-chair of the International Chapter of the Copyright Society of the USA, steering committee member of the D.C. Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Law Section, and Chair of the Copyright Committee of the D.C. Bar’s IP Law Section.
Ms. Temple received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Senior Editor of the Columbia Law Review, and Chairperson of the Columbia Black Law Students’ Association. She received her B.A. in English from the University of Michigan.
Nicole Collier leads US Federal Government Relations for Procter & Gamble in Washington, DC. She leads the company’s engagement strategy with policy makers and other external stakeholders on it’s top priorities.
Nicole has over 20 years of public affairs and government affairs experience. She is a proven leader and applies an integrated approach to influence critical audiences through a combination of public affairs and strategic communications strategies.
Nicole graduated from Hampton University and received her MPA from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Tara Palmeri is a senior political correspondent and partner of Puck News. She’s also the host of the Discovery+ documentary “Dr. Delirium & the Edgewood Experiments.” She was previously POLITICO’s Chief National Correspondent and an author of their Playbook franchise. She hosted the acclaimed Sony podcasts “Broken: Seeking Justice,” and “Power: The Maxwells.” She was formerly a White House correspondent for ABC News, where she covered the most important political stories for flagship programs like Good Morning America and World News Tonight.
Previously, Tara was White House Correspondent for POLITICO and a CNN Political Analyst and broke many significant stories about the Trump Administration. Before joining POLITICO’s D.C. political team, she reported for POLITICO’s European edition where she covered the Paris and Brussels terror attacks, the Greek financial crisis and the British referendum. At the time, she was a CNBC contributor where she provided commentary on-air.
Prior to moving to Europe, Palmeri reported on New York City politics for the New York Post. She started at the newspaper in 2010 as a reporter for Page Six. During President Obama’s first term, she co-authored the Washington Examiner’s “Yeas & Nays” column on people, power and politics in the U.S. capital.
Palmeri started her career in journalism in 2008 as a broadcast intern for Voice of America while pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Communications at American University in Washington, D.C. She graduated summa cum laude in December 2008 and was hired shortly after by CNN to assist live production.
In addition to ABC, CNN, and CNBC, she has made television appearances on MSNBC, BBC, Fox News Channel and CBS.
Madalene Xuan-Trang Mielke is a nationally recognized civil rights leader and a member of USA Today’s Inaugural Leaders of Change. As President & CEO of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) and Founder and Principal of Arum Group, LLC, she brings nearly 25 years of experience working in political campaigns and specializes in political/non-profit fundraising and political training.
After returning from the ’96 campaign, Ms. Mielke worked for the Co-Executive Director at the Presidential Inaugural Committee and later to Vice President Gore’s team. Ms. Mielke started fundraising while working at the New Democrat Network PAC and she returned to her roots as the Training Director for the Ron Brown-Paul Tully Institute (BTI), the training arm of the DNC. In 2002 Ms. Mielke started her political consulting firm, specializing in fundraising and political training. Madalene has collaborated with the NAACP National Voter Fund, John Kerry for President, Democratic National Committee Asian American Leadership Council, Mike Honda for Congress, Friends of Hillary, CHC BOLD PAC, Akaka for US Senate, Xavier Becerra for Congress, Mazie Hirono for Congress, Honda for Congress, America’s Opportunity Fund, Asian American Action (AAA) Fund and Young Democrats of America to raise millions of dollars to empower communities of color.
Throughout her career, Madalene has been a featured speaker or trainer at many conferences and trainings including the American Medical Association (AMA), the Center for Asian Pacific American Women, Virginia Leadership Institute, Netroots Nation, Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL), and numerous other organizations and non-profits.
She has spent her entire professional political career working to bring diversity to the political process and nurturing candidates and staff as they move forward in bringing political change. The Vietnamese American Chamber of Commerce awarded Ms. Mielke with its National Community Service award for her work in mentoring and promoting Vietnamese American civic participation.
Madalene is a proud graduate of Tulane University, Newcomb College. She serves as a mentor through a variety of collegiate mentoring programs including the Newcomb College Institute Women to Women Mentoring Program and Georgetown University’s Politics Mentorship Program.
Patina Miller stars as ‘Raquel Thomas’ in the STARZ Original series “Power Book III: Raising Kanan” which is currently in production on its third season. Last summer, Patina made her highly anticipated Broadway return in the critically acclaimed revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1987 musical, Into The Woods. Patina received rave reviews starring as the Witch, a role she played during a Hollywood Bowl production of the musical in 2019. This marked the first time in 8 years that she graced the Broadway stage since she won a Tony Award for “Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical” in 2013. This year, Miller won a Grammy Award for the “Best Musical Theater Album” category for her work on the cast recording of Into the Woods.
She previously starred as press coordinator Daisy Grant in the CBS hit drama series “Madam Secretary,” starring Tea Leoni, Bebe Neuwirth and Tim Daly. She also starred as Charlotte Jenkins on the PBS Civil War-era drama “Mercy Street,” alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Josh Radnor. The show marked PBS’ first original drama in more than a decade. Additionally, Miller served as the narrator in Jim Henson’s animated children’s series “Word Party.”
In 2021, Miller starred in The Many Saints of Newark, the feature film prequel to David Chase’s award-winning series “The Sopranos.” She made her feature film debut as Commander Paylor in Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The first part of the famous trilogy’s finale was released in November 2014. Miller then reprised her role in the final installment of the series, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, which was released in November 2015.
Miller starred as the Leading Player in the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz’s famous 1972 musical “Pippin,” directed by Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus and co-starring Matthew James Thomas, Andrea Martin and Terrance Mann. “Pippin” received the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical at the 67th Annual Tony Awards. Miller successfully put a contemporary twist on a role originated by award-winning actor Ben Vereen, and mastered the Fosse movements that the show relies so heavily on.
Miller earned a Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical, an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, as well as a Broadway.com Audience Choice Award. She was also a Drama League Award honoree and Fred and Adele Astaire Award nominee. She previously performed the role of Leading Player in the American Repertory Theater production of “Pippin” from December 2012 to January 2013.
Miller made her Broadway debut in the 2011 Broadway season as the gutsy nightclub-singer-turned-nun Deloris Van Cartier in the stage adaptation of “Sister Act,” which earned her first Tony nomination as well as a Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for her performance. She was also a Theatre World Award winner.
Additionally, Miller starred in multiple Off-Broadway productions, including “Ragtime” at Avery Fisher Hall, City Center Encores! production of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s “Lost in the Stars,” and the Manhattan Theatre Club’s “Romantic Poetry.” Miller also appeared in the Public Theater’s pre-Broadway revival of “Hair” during its 2008 run at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, also under the direction of Diane Paulus. Her regional theatre credits include “First You Dream,” a Kander and Ebb revue at the Kennedy Center, “Sister Act” at the Alliance Theatre and Pasadena Playhouse, and the Philadelphia Theater Company production of “Being Alive.” She has participated in workshops for “Book of Mormon,” “Nightingale,” and “American Idiot.” Prior to her numerous theater credits, Miller appeared in the renowned daytime soap opera “All My Children.”
Miller performed her first solo concert at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts during its 2013-2014 theatrical season. She then made her New York City debut in February 2014 as part of Lincoln Center Theater’s “American Songbook” series, which subsequently aired on PBS.
Miller received a degree in musical theater from Carnegie Mellon University. She currently resides in New York City.
Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett represents the Congressional District of the United States Virgin Islands’ At-large in the House of Representatives. Ms. Plaskett is serving her 5th term in Congress and was appointed by Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries as Ranking Member of the House Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government and the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on National Intelligence Enterprise for the 118th Congress. She is also a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, the New Democrat Coalition, and is a Co-Chair of the Congressional Caribbean Caucus.
As Ranking Member of the House Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government, Ms. Plaskett works to ensure Democratic members of this Subcommittee focus on evidence-based inquiries and not wild conspiracy theories. The Republican’s attempt to derail the federal government’s obligation to investigate and conduct due process on actions, organizations, and individuals that threaten our republic and create an anti-democratic environment will be met with strong resistance by Ms. Plaskett and her Democratic colleagues on the subcommittee.
As a Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on National Intelligence Enterprise, Ms. Plaskett employs her skills as a former prosecutor to ensure accountability and transparency both within government and private sector entities whose operations impact the Virgin Islands community and communities across America.
Stacey Plaskett was appointed by the former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to be one of the nine impeachment managers to prosecute President Trump in the U.S. Senate. Plaskett conducted some of the most detailed presentations of the events of the day and was one of the managers chosen to respond to the Questions of U.S. Senators during a day of the proceedings. At the time of the Senate trial, Ms. Plaskett was the only Black woman in the Senate Chamber.
Stacey Plaskett is a staunch advocate for poverty-reduction and equal voting rights and is well versed in Caribbean economic development and public-private partnerships for growing the economies of developing areas. She is a graduate of Choate Rosemary Hall, earned her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, and received her Juris Doctorate from American University’s Washington College of Law.
