Our Honorees
We’re thrilled to recognize these Members of Congress who have dedicated their career to promoting civic service and bipartisanship, as well as our Corporate Honoree for their valued partnership.
Senator John Boozman
Senator Boozman is Arkansas’s senior U.S. Senator, a fifth-generation Arkansan, and the dean of the state’s Congressional delegation. Prior to serving in the Senate, he represented the people of the Third District of Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Decades of experience as a successful healthcare provider and a small business owner guide Senator Boozman’s approach to governing. He is committed to advocating for economic policies that help Arkansas’s small businesses and has been a consistent champion for his state’s farmers, ranchers, and loggers.
As the son of an Air Force Master Sergeant, Senator Boozman learned at an early age about the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform, as well as the unique challenges military families face. He brings these values with him to Washington as a member of the Committee on Veterans’ Affair, where he is committed to enhancing the quality of life for veterans and their families. He also serves as Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, enabling him to play a key role in influencing policy that relates to the agriculture economy, nutrition programs and quality of life in rural America. Senator Boozman will also continue to serve on the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Environment and Public Works, and the Committee on Rules and Administration in the 119th Congress.
Along with these committees, Senator Boozman serves on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, commonly referred to as the Helsinki Commission. He is the Republican Senate Co-Chair of FMC’s Congressional Study Group on Europe (CSGE), a bipartisan organization dedicated to frank and candid dialogue between American lawmakers and their peers in European capitals and Brussels, and currently chairs the Senate Delegation to the British-American Interparliamentary Group.
In addition, Senator Boozman also serves as one of six Congressional Regents on the Smithsonian Institute's Board of Regents, as well as one of four congressional members of the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission that facilitates wetland conservation efforts and projects to sustain migratory bird populations.
He is married to the former Cathy Marley and they currently reside in Rogers. The couple has three daughters and four grandchildren.
Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock
U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock was raised in public housing in Savannah, Georgia and is the first in his family to graduate from college. Senator Warnock attended Atlanta’s historic Morehouse College and went on to receive his doctorate at the renowned Union Theological Seminary. Since 2005, he has served as Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the spiritual home of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Elected Georgia’s first Black Senator in 2021, Senator Warnock has championed legislation to cap the cost of insulin for seniors, invest in our students and our workforce, and address the maternal mortality crisis. Senator Warnock continues to use his moral voice in the Senate to deliver for Georgians and center ordinary people in Washington policy-making—from working to end gun violence and close Georgia’s health care coverage gap, to advocating for America’s farmers and rural communities, to increasing tax cuts for working families, to fighting to protect the sacred right to vote.
Congressman Bill Huizenga
Congressman Bill Huizenga represents Michigan's 4th Congressional District, which stretches along the shores of Lake Michigan to Battle Creek. Prior to serving Michigan's 4th Congressional District, Congressman Huizenga represented Michigan's 2nd Congressional District from January 2011 until January 2023.
Huizenga's interest in public service began when he was a young boy. When the family was gathered around the dinner table, his father would encourage thoughtful discussions surrounding business and politics. Huizenga went on to attend Holland Christian High School and later received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Calvin College. After college, Bill began his career as a realtor and entrepreneur.
Congressman Huizenga is an original member and Republican Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Fiscal Forum (BFF), a group founded during the 118th Congress that is dedicated to sounding the alarm about our nation’s unsustainable debt trajectory and working together to get control of our fiscal future. Additionally, Congressman Huizenga has been elected by his colleagues since 2017 to serve as a Co-Chair of the Great Lakes Task Force, which fosters cooperation and support for policies and programs that enhance the environmental health and economic potential of the Great Lakes.
In the 119th Congress, Huizenga will also lead the following bipartisan caucuses and groups: the US-Canada Interparliamentary Group, the Northern Border Caucus, the Congressional Burma Caucus, and the Congressional Study Group on Europe.
Congressman Huizenga serves as the Vice Chair of the House Financial Services Committee. He will also serve as a member of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, and the newly created Monetary Policy, Treasury Market Resilience, and Economic Prosperity Task Force.
Congressman Huizenga will chair the Subcommittee on South & Central Asia, will also serve as a member of the Subcommittee on Africa for the 119th Congress.
Congressman Huizenga is a lifelong resident of Ottawa County, where he currently resides with his wife and children.
Congressman Gregory Meeks
Now in his thirteenth term, Congressman Gregory Meeks has served New York’s fifth district for over two decades.
Congressman Meeks’ value for social justice and giving back to his community in East Harlem was instilled in him by his parents. These values, alongside his childhood dream of becoming a lawyer, propelled him first into Adelphi University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history; and then to Howard University Law School. In the years to follow, Congressman Meeks worked as a Queens County Assistant District Attorney, a prosecutor for a special anti-narcotics taskforce, and chief administrative judge for New York State's worker compensation system. In 1992, he was elected to the New York State Assembly, where he served until 1998, when he won a special election to represent the Fifth Congressional District of New York.
Congressman Meeks is the Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and in the 117th Congress was the first Black Member of Congress to serve as Chairman of the Committee. He is a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, where he served as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions. Rep. Meeks previously served as a Dodd-Frank conferee, where he helped co-author provisions in Wall Street reform law such as stress testing requirements and creating the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion at the financial regulatory agencies.
Congressman Meeks is focused on revitalizing the economy, creating jobs, and enhancing the resiliency of the Fifth District's transportation, housing and environmental infrastructure, which were hit hard by Superstorm Sandy. He has helped secure funding for new affordable residential units in Jamaica and the revitalization of Downtown Far Rockaway, and fought to improve public transit accessibility for his constituents, especially to and from JFK Airport.
Congressman Meeks is a member of the Allen AME Church in St. Albans, New York and a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. As a huge sports fan, Meeks enjoys watching the New York Knicks, the New York Giants, and the New York Mets. He is married to Simone-Marie Meeks. He has three daughters – Ebony, Aja, and Nia-Aiyana and four granddaughters.
Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies, with more than 261 million mobile customers, 25 million fixed-network lines, and 22 million broadband customers.
We provide fixed-network/broadband, mobile communications, Internet, and IPTV products and services for consumers, and information and communication technology (ICT) solutions for business and corporate customers.
Deutsche Telekom is present in more than 50 countries. With a staff of some 200,000 (Dec 31, 2024) employees throughout the world, we generated revenue of 115.6 billion Euros in the 2024 financial year.*
Today, we are developing from a classic telephone company into a service company of a completely new type: the software company that sells telecommunications services. Because only a Telekom that is digitalised in all areas can continue the successful path of the past years. With our presence in Europe and the USA, we are ideally positioned for this. We want to become the leading digital telco. The core business, i.e. the operation and sale of networks and connections, will remain the basis..