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Keynote Speaker: Nikki Haley

Tuesday, October 22 | 8:30 AM | Kierland 3 & 4

Nikki R. Haley is the former United States

Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

She served as a member of President Republic of the Congo and South
Donald Trump’s Cabinet and the Sudan, to Venezuelan migrants walking
National Security Council. miles every day to cross the Colombian
border for food and medicine.
At the United Nations, Ambassador Haley
ensured the American people saw value During her time as ambassador, the
for their investment, introducing reforms United States stood proudly with its
that made the organization more efficient, allies, repeatedly taking a strong and
transparent, and accountable. In a two principled stand against the chronic
year period, she negotiated over $1.3 anti-Israel bias at the United Nations. In
billion in savings, including rightsizing the UN Security Council, she proudly
UN peacekeeping missions to make issued the first American veto in six
them more effective and targeted while years defending the United States’
improving their ability to protect civilians. sovereign right to move our Embassy
to Jerusalem—Israel’s true capital.
In the UN Security Council, Ambassador
Haley worked to defend Americans’ Prior to becoming the twenty-ninth more equitable for schools in the
interests and keep our country safe. U.S. Permanent Representative to the state’s poorest communities, prioritizing
She spearheaded negotiations for United Nations, Ambassador Haley reading in early grades, and equipping
the passage of the strongest set of was elected in 2010 as the first female classrooms with the latest technology.
sanctions ever placed on North Korea and first minority Governor of South Born in Bamberg, South Carolina, she
for its nuclear weapons program, cutting Carolina. Reelected in 2014, she is the daughter of Indian immigrants
off the regime’s exports by 90 percent served as Governor until confirmed by and a proud graduate of Clemson
and its access to oil by 30 percent. the U.S. Senate as the U.S. Permanent University. In her first job, Ambassador
Representative to the United Nations in
As UN Ambassador Haley championed January of 2017. Haley kept the books for her family’s
human rights. She challenged human clothing store—at the age of 13.
rights violators across the globe, Under Governor Haley’s leadership, Ambassador Haley and her husband,
standing up to oppressive regimes South Carolina was a national leader Michael, a Captain in the South
in Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and in economic development. Known as Carolina Army National Guard and
Russia. During the U.S presidency of the “Beast of the Southeast,” South combat veteran who deployed to
the UN Security Council, she hosted Carolina’s unemployment rate hit a 15 Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, have
the first-ever session devoted solely to year low, it saw over $20 billion in new two children, Rena, 20, and Nalin, 17.
promoting human rights. She traveled capital investment, and her administration
the world visiting people oppressed by announced new jobs in every county in
their own governments to see firsthand the state, over 85,000 total. Sponsored by
the challenges they face and to work
with them directly on life-improving Governor Haley also ushered in the
solutions—from Syrian refugees state’s largest education reform in
in Jordan and Turkey, to internally decades—making education funding
displaced people in the Democratic

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