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Good News met Kathy at a Women’s Good Samaritan event and set up an interview about that event and the 2019 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business Award event that she was invited to speak at.  Here is some background on Kathleen.

Kathleen Courtney Hochul (/ˈhoʊkəl/ HOH-kull; born August 27, 1958) is an American politician and lawyer serving as Lieutenant Governor of New York since 2015. She will become the first female Governor of New York as a result of Andrew Cuomo‘s resignation, scheduled for August 24, 2021.

Hochul was a lawyer and legislative aide before serving as a member of the Hamburg Town Board from 1994 to 2007. She served as the county clerk of Erie County, New York from 2007 to 2011, having served as the deputy county clerk from 2003 to 2007.

In May 2011, Hochul won the four-candidate special election to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of Republican Chris Lee,^[1][2] becoming the first Democrat to represent the district in 40 years. She served as the U.S. representative for New York’s 26th congressional district from 2011 to 2013. Hochul was defeated for reelection to Congress in the 2012 elections by former Erie County Executive Chris Collins after the boundaries and demographics of her district were changed in the decennial reapportionment process.

After leaving Congress, she worked as a government relations specialist with Buffalo-based M&T Bank.^[3] In 2014, Governor Andrew Cuomo selected Hochul as his running mate in the 2014 New York gubernatorial election; after they won the election, Hochul was appointed Lieutenant Governor of New York. Cuomo and Hochul were reelected in 2018

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KATHLEEN COURTNEY HOCHUL, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK TO
KEYNOTE AT THE
2019 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award

EVENT: NEW YORK, N.Y., June 20, 2019 – The 18th annual Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Awards Dinner Gala will be held on Thursday, June 20th at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Noted attendees will include Lieutenant Governor of New York State; Ping Huang, Consul General of People’s Republic of China; Nipon Petchpornprapas, Consul General of Thailand; Robert Smullen, NYS Assemblyman; Sadia Faizunnesa, Consul General of Bangladesh; and Jasmin Wee, Consul General of Singapore
The highest honor of the night, the Pinnacle Award will be presented to Laxman Narasimham, Global Chief Commercial Officer, PepsiCo.

As in past years, the 2019 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award Gala will include a wide array of Asian ethnicities that represent a microcosm of Asian American business owners, professionals and corporate executives across the United States. The award committee identifies and selects outstanding leaders who have built a successful business or who have distinguished themselves in their community. Of those, the committee also identifies a top Pinnacle Award recipient who has reached the acme of his/her professional career and is widely acknowledged as a leader in their industry. This year, the award gala will cumulatively have honored over 800 successful Asian Americans representing over 50 industries and professions.

WHEN: Thursday, June 20, 2019
TIME: 6 PM

WHERE: Cipriani Wall Street
55 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005

BACKGROUND: This year’s event comes on the heels of a unique Nielsen/AABDC collaboration to conduct a study dedicated to understanding the experiences of Asian American women in business and a successful Asian American Women Leadership Conference held in May. “The topic of increasing the presence of Asian women in business leadership is a critical element of AABDC’s mission to promote the development of Asian American entrepreneurs, executives and corporate leaders.” Says John Wang, President of AABDC. “I’ve seen first-hand how Asian American women bring intelligence, creativity, and vitality to the many spheres that they occupy. We will continue to promote successes of women who sit at the top of their fields, through our annual Outstanding 50 and Pinnacle awards.”

Over 600 leading business, political and civic leaders attend the annual award gala to pay tribute to the outstanding entrepreneurs and corporate executives in the Asian American business community from across The United States. AABDC: www.aabdc.com Outstanding 50 Awards: www.outstanding50award.com

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