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 Cory Booker
Senator Cory Booker believes that the American dream isn’t real for anyone unless it’s within reach of everyone. Senator Booker has dedicated his life to fighting for those who have been left out, left behind, or left without a voice. Senator Booker grew up in northern New Jersey and received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and went on to study at the University of Oxford, and then Yale Law School, where he graduated in 1997.
After graduating law school, Senator Booker moved to Newark and started a nonprofit organization to provide legal services for low-income families, helping tenants take on slumlords. In 1998, Senator Booker moved into the Brick Towers housing project in Newark, where he lived until its demolition in 2006. He still lives in Newark’s Central Ward today, where the median household income is less than $15,000. At 29, Senator Booker was elected to the Newark City Council. Starting in 2006, he served as Newark’s mayor for more than seven years. During his tenure, the city entered its largest period of economic growth since the 1960s. In addition, overall crime declined and the quality of life for residents improved due to initiatives such as more affordable housing, new green spaces and parks, increased educational opportunities, and more efficient city services.
In October 2013, Senator Booker won a special election to represent New Jersey in the United States Senate. In November 2014, he was re-elected to a full six-year term. As New Jersey’s junior Senator, Senator Booker has brought an innovative and consensus-building approach to tackling some of the most difficult problems facing New Jersey and our country. He has emerged as a national leader in the effort to fix our broken criminal justice system and has also worked to reform America’s broken food system, address our nation’s nutrition crisis, and end food insecurity.
Senator Booker sits on the Judiciary Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee.
Senator Todd Young
Since joining the Senate in 2017, Senator Todd Young has developed a reputation as a bipartisan problem solver. On issues like outcompeting the Chinese Communist Party, securing the border, growing the economy, expanding affordable housing options for all Hoosiers, supporting Indiana’s veterans, and harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, Senator Young has offered conservative solutions to many of the biggest issues facing Hoosier families.
Senator Young’s path to the Senate went through the United States Marine Corps. After graduating high school, Senator Young attended the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated with honors in 1995 and accepted a commission in the U.S. Marine Corps. After training as a rifle platoon commander, he served as an intelligence officer, spending time on the U.S. southern border. Senator Young’s education continued with an MBA from the University of Chicago with a concentration in economics, and after he was honorably discharged as a Captain in 2000, an MA from the School of Advanced Study in London. Upon returning to the United States, he accepted a position at the Heritage Foundation and later worked as a legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate.
In 2003, Senator Young returned home to Indiana and soon met his future wife, Jenny, while earning his JD from Indiana University. They married in 2005, and then worked together at a small law firm in Paoli, Indiana, that was started by Jenny’s great-grandfather in 1933. In 2010, Senator Young ran his first campaign for Congress, defeating a strong Democrat incumbent to represent Indiana’s 9th Congressional District. He served three terms in the House before running for Senate in 2016. Senator Young and Jenny and their four children currently reside in Johnson County.
He serves on the U.S. Senate Committees on Finance; Commerce, Science & Transportation; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He also serves on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Previously, in the House, he served on the House Armed Services Committee, the House Budget Committee, and the House Ways and Means Committee.
Representative Ed Case
United States Representative Ed Case has proudly represented Hawaii's First Congressional District (Honolulu from Makapu'u to Mililani and Kapolei) since 2019. He previously represented Hawaii’s Second Congressional District (remainder of O’ahu and all other islands) from 2002 to 2007.
Congressman Case was born and raised in Hilo and graduated from Hawai’i Preparatory Academy in Kamuela, Williams College in Massachusetts and the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. He practiced law in Honolulu for over two decades, served as Hawai'i State Representative from Manoa from 1994 to 2002 in various positions including Majority Leader, and worked for five years as Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Outrigger, one of Hawaii's oldest and largest hotel and resort companies.
Congressman Case is married to Audrey (Nakamura), his Hawai’i Prep classmate who worked for four decades as a flight attendant with Pan American and United. They have four children, two daughters-in law and three grandchildren.
Representative Young Kim
Congresswoman Young Kim is proud to represent California’s 40th District, which includes parts of Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties, in the U.S. House of Representatives.
An immigrant, small business owner, community leader, mother, grandmother, and one of the first Korean American women ever to serve in Congress, Young is proud to represent California’s 40th District and work to help all Americans have the chance to achieve their dream just like she did.
In the 119th Congress, Young continues to serve on the House Financial Services Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee, where she is Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific. She is also serving on the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.
Young is consistently ranked among the most bipartisan and effective members of Congress, with nearly 40 bills through the House and over a dozen signed into law.
Young and her husband Charles live in Anaheim Hills and are the proud parents of Christine, Kelly, Alvin, and Hannah and grandparents of Mia and Caleb.
Aflac
Aflac is a Fortune 500 company, providing financial protection to millions of policyholders and customers through its subsidiaries in the U.S. and Japan. When a policyholder or insured gets sick or hurt, Aflac pays cash benefits promptly, for eligible claims, directly to the insured (unless assigned otherwise). For more than six decades, Aflac voluntary insurance policies have given policyholders the opportunity to focus on recovery, not financial stress.