January 22: Gregory Porter, State Representative, Indiana General Assembly

Gregory Porter, State Representative of the Indiana General Assembly, will join us on Tuesday at Rotary. He is currently the ranking minority member of the Indiana House Ways and Means Committee. He is also a member of the Insurance and Public Health committees as well as serving as a voting member of the Indiana State Budget Committee.

Porter serves as Chair of the Kennedy King Memorial Initiative Board which strives to reflect on, learn from and apply today’s challenges, the lives, words and lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. He will be discussing the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King in Indianapolis.

Porter is a native of Indianapolis, a graduate of Shortridge High School and holds a bachelor of arts degree from Earlham College. He graduated from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Executive Program in 2001 and served on the Harvard Working Group on Early Childhood Science and Policy. He has an honorary doctorate degree from Martin University, Indianapolis.

All are welcome at Rotary programs. The lunch buffet opens at Ivy Tech Culinary and Conference Center at 11:45 a.m. and the program runs 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. See you there!