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U.S. Congressman John Boehner and longtime advisor to President Barack Obama Valerie Jarrett engage in an in-depth, frank debate on the state of politics today.
A regular on CNN's list of "Washington's most powerful women" and included in TIME's “100 Most Influential People in the World,” Valerie Jarrett has reached the highest levels of both the corporate and political world. A key White House strategist who oversaw the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and Chaired the White House Council on Women and Girls, Jarrett is largely regarded as the most powerful female presidential advisor in American history. She is in-demand for her ability to tackle issues from the perspective of both the boardroom and the situation room.
With unparalleled experience on Capitol Hill serving in three of the most powerful positions in Congress, Boehner is, as Politico wrote, "one of the most high-profile political leaders of the last three decades." He provides an unvarnished look at the dynamics in Washington, and is consistently heralded for balancing engaging (and downright funny) anecdotes with substantive takeaways. His "audacious honesty" (as the Washington Post headlined), razor-sharp analysis, and refreshing willingness to highlight issues on both sides of the aisle, make him a go-to voice on decoding our current, and future, political landscape.
A former small businessman, John Boehner served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives for nearly five years during which he led the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable federal government. Speaker Boehner focused on removing government barriers to private-sector job creation and economic growth, cutting government spending, reforming Congress, and rebuilding the bonds of trust between the American people and their representatives in Washington.
His new book On The House: A Washington Memoir released in the Spring of 2021.
A regular on CNN's list of "Washington's most powerful women" and included in TIME's “100 Most Influential People in the World,” Valerie Jarrett has reached the highest levels of both the corporate and political world. The longest-ever serving Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama and a CEO of the Habitat Company, Jarrett's unparalleled experience in the private and public sector have made her a go-to speaker at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, The Aspen Institute, elite universities, and more.
A key White House strategist who oversaw the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and Chaired the White House Council on Women and Girls, Jarrett is largely regarded as the most powerful female presidential advisor in American history and was known as "the other half of Obama's brain." Her tenure in the White House is marked by her talent for mobilizing diverse groups of advocates, her leadership in the administration's efforts to expand and strengthen access to the middle class, and boost American businesses, her advocacy for the creation of equality and opportunity for all Americans, and economically and politically empowering women in the United States and around the world.
Recently elected as a Board Member of Lyft, Jarrett continues to spearhead policies to drive economic growth and the empowerment of women. She also continues her groundbreaking advocacy work through the Galvanize Program, a series of summits focused on women's rights, which she launched in 2017. Set to publish a book onboth her personal history and crucial civic advice, Jarrett is set to share her transformative takeaways with a wider audience.
Jarrett is in-demand for her ability to tackle issues from the perspective of both the boardroom and the situation room. Just since this spring, the Women's Funded Network, The University of Chicago, North Carolina A&T, The Public Library Association, The Black Business Summit, The Reimagining Justice Conference, The Center for Women in Law, and The Greater Baltimore Leadership Association, have all turned to Jarrett for her insights into the 21st century workplace, women's rights, today's political climate, issues of social justice, economic policy, and more.
A former small businessman, John Boehner served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives for nearly five years (January 2011-October 2015), during which he led the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable federal government. Boehner represented the Eighth Congressional District of Ohio in the U.S. House from 1991 to 2015. He now serves as Senior Strategic Advisor for Squire Patton Boggs LLP, one of the world’s foremost law and public policy firms.
The son of a bartender and second oldest of 12 brothers and sisters, John grew up mopping floors at the family tavern and playing football at Cincinnati’s Moeller High School. While working to pay his way through Xavier University, he met Debbie – his wife of 41 years – and started his own small business. He and Debbie still live in the home where they raised their two daughters, Lindsay and Tricia. John got involved in state and local government after seeing firsthand how high taxes and red tape impact entrepreneurs. Then in 1990, the voters sent John to the U.S. House, where he took a strong stand against pork-barrel spending and, as part of the reform-minded “Gang of Seven,” forced the closure of the scandal-ridden House Bank and House Post Office.
John’s reputation as a reformer grew as he worked alongside then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), helping to craft the historic 1994 Contract with America and helping to lead the effort to enact the first balanced federal budget in a generation. Later, as Chairman of the House Committee on Education & the Workforce, he wrote legislation to expand school choice, strengthen America’s pension system, and reform the federal education bureaucracy to demand results for students and parents. Elected as House Majority Leader in 2006 and chosen to become House Republican Leader later that year, Boehner led the opposition to job-crushing proposals such as President Obama’s “cap and trade” initiative and ObamaCare while promoting better solutions to the challenges facing American families. On January 5, 2011, Boehner took the gavel as Speaker of the House following the historic 2010 election in which Congressional Republicans, under Boehner’s leadership, picked up 63 seats in the U.S. House. Guided by the Pledge to America – a new governing agenda reflecting the priorities of the American people – Speaker Boehner focused on removing government barriers to private-sector job creation and economic growth, addressing the drivers of America’s debt, eliminating pork-barrel “earmarks” and reforming Congress, and rebuilding the bonds of trust between the American people and their representatives in Washington.
Boehner, who became a first-time grandfather during the summer of 2015, left the United States Congress on October 31, 2015, after nearly 25 years of serving the people of Ohio’s 8th Congressional District and the nation. Boehner joined Squire Patton Boggs in the autumn of 2016 as the firm’s Senior Strategic Advisor. In this role, he provides strategic advice to Squire Patton Boggs’ clients in the U.S. and abroad, and focuses on global business development.
His new book On The House: A Washington Memoir released in the Spring of 2021.
Valerie B. Jarrett was the longest serving Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. She oversaw the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and Chaired the White House Council on Women and Girls.
Ms. Jarrett has worked throughout her tenure at the White House to mobilize elected officials, business and community leaders, and diverse groups of advocates. She led the Obama Administration’s efforts to expand and strengthen access to the middle class, and boost American businesses and our economy. She championed the creation of equality and opportunity for all Americans, and economically and politically empowering women in the United States and around the world. She oversaw the Administration’s advocacy for workplace policies that empower working families, including equal pay, raising the minimum wage, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare, and led the campaigns to reform our criminal justice system, end sexual assault, and reduce gun violence.
Ms. Jarrett has a background in both the public and private sectors. She served as the Chief Executive Officer of The Habitat Company in Chicago, Chairman of the Chicago Transit Board, Commissioner of Planning and Development, and Deputy Chief of Staff for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. She also served as the director of numerous corporate and not-for-profit boards including Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chairman of the University of Chicago Medical Center Board of Trustees, and Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Ms. Jarrett has also received numerous awards and honorary degrees, including TIME’s “100 Most Influential People.”
Jarrett received her B.A. from Stanford University in 1978 and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981.
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