A Conversation with Senator Barbara Boxer
The UNLV Boyd School of Law presents
A CONVERSATION WITH SENATOR BARBARA BOXER
FORMER U.S. SENATOR FOR CALIFORNIA (1993-2017)
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SENATOR HARRY REID
Thursday, September 3, 2020 10 AM PT
ZOOM Meeting ID: 989 2464 7572 Password: 032298
ABOUT SENATOR BOXER
Until the day she left the United States Senate in January 2017, Barbara Boxer has been a forceful advocate for families, children, consumers the environment and her state of California. Boxer served 24 years in the Senate, 10 years in the House, and 6 years on the Marin County Board of Supervisors. A national leader on environmental protection, Senator Boxer worked to secure more than 1 million acres of wilderness to protect California’s natural heritage. Her service in the Senate included Chairing the Environment and Public Works Committee where she focused on environment and infrastructure, senior membership on the Foreign Relations Committee where she worked for global women’s issues and for the successful use of the soft power of diplomacy. She also served as the top democrat on the Senate Ethics Committee. A champion of quality public education, Senator Boxer wrote landmark legislation establishing the first-ever federal funding for after school programs. Her law now covers over 1 million children. Senator Boxer has won numerous awards for her efforts to create a cleaner, healthier environment and for her dedicated work to address the threats of climate change. She fought to remove arsenic from drinking water and authored a successful amendment ensuring that drinking water standards protect children. She has led efforts in Congress to protect California’s coast from offshore oil drilling and fought to end the unethical use of human subjects in pesticide testing by federal agencies. An author of several books, her latest one “The Art of Tough,” Boxer’s message is that every single one of us should be empowered to make life better for our communities through positive change in debate and government.