Featured Session: Beto O'Rourke in Conversation with Evan Smith

Mar 12, 2022

10:00am – 11:00am CT

Beto O’Rourke is a fourth-generation Texan, born and raised in El Paso where he has served as a small business owner, a city council representative and a member of Congress. He founded and currently leads Powered by People, a Texas-based organization that works to expand democracy and produce Democratic victories through voter registration and direct voter engagement. Powered by People has helped register over 250,000 unregistered Texans to vote since its inception in December 2019.

Beto is married to Amy O’Rourke and together they are raising Ulysses, Molly and Henry in El Paso’s historic Sunset Heights.

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Beto O'Rourke

Powered By People

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Evan Smith

The Texas Tribune

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