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Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials MJ, was born on February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, NY is a former professional basketball player, American Olympic athlete, businessperson, and actor. Michael Jordan is considered one of the best basketball players ever, he dominated the court in mid-1980s to late 1990s. Michael Jordan won six NBA championships and earned the league’s MVP Award five times. With five regular-season MVPs and three All-Star MVPs, Jordan became the most decorated player in the NBA. Michael Jordan grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina, he attended Laney High School in Wilmington. During basketball camp during summer 1980, Michael apprehended the attention of legendary University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill head coach Dean Smith and staff; he signed his letter of intent with the school in 1981. After his junior year he join the NBA in 1984, with the Chicago Bulls, and later in 1986, he finished his bachelor’s degree in geography while playing professional basketball.

Michael Jordan is most famous for wearing the No. 23 during most of his career. Michael was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 1984, he was the third overall pick. He helped the Bulls get to the playoffs and scored an average of 28.2 points per game that season. Michael received the NBA Rookie of the Year Award and was selected for the All-Star Game. He became the first player since Wilt Chamberlain to score more than 3,000 points in a single season.

In April 2009, Michael received the great honor of being inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. A bittersweet affair for Michael because it meant “your basketball career is completely over,” he explained.

Besides his career in basketball, Michael has several profitable business and commercial ventures, specifically his partnership with Nike. Michael signed his first deal with Nike in 1984, launching the acclaimed Air Jordan basketball sneakers in 1985. In its initial contract, Nike gave Jordan a generous 25 percent in royalties. The Air Jordan quickly proved very popular, and it continues to be a best-seller for the apparel maker more than 30 years later. Nike and Jordan continue

to earn millions, reporting nearly $2.9 billion in revenue for the Air Jordan line in 2018.

The story of Jordan’s partnership with Nike is the subject of the 2023 biographical drama Air, which stars Ben Affleck as Nike founder Phil Knight and Matt Damon as marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro.

Here are some his career totals: Games: 1,072 Games Started: 1,039 Minutes: 41,011 3-Point Field Goals Made: 581 Free Throws Made: 7,327 Offensive Rebounds: 1,668 Defensive Rebounds: 5,004 Total Rebounds: 6,672 Steals: 2,514 Blocks: 893 Turnovers: 2,924 Personal Fouls: 2,783 Points: 32,292 Assists: 5,633 Field Goals: 12,192

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Jahana Hayes represents Connecticut’s 5th District in the United States House of Representatives. The district spans northwest and central Connecticut and includes Danbury, Litchfield County, the Farmington Valley, the Naugatuck Valley, Meriden, and her hometown of Waterbury. She serves on committees of Education and Workforce, and Agriculture where she is the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture and Horticulture.

Areas of legislative focus for Congresswoman Hayes are equitable access to quality education, affordable health care, labor, agriculture, and veterans issues. Additional priority areas include: environment, immigration reform, gun violence prevention, social justice, transportation, and working in a bipartisan way to bring positive change to the lives of every person in our community.

During her Congressional tenure, Congresswoman Hayes has had 8 bills signed into law. To date she has introduced 56 and cosponsored over 1,600 pieces of legislation across a broad range of topics, including: education, veterans issues, environment, healthcare, nutrition and agriculture.

Congresswoman Hayes has worked with both the Trump and Biden Administrations and in a bipartisan, bicameral way to bring millions of dollars in assistance back to Connecticut.

Congresswoman Hayes was elected in November 2018, making her the first African-American woman to ever represent the state of Connecticut in Congress. Before running for office, Hayes was a history teacher for 15 years at John F. Kennedy High School in Waterbury, where she was named Waterbury Teacher of the Year, Connecticut Teacher of the Year, before going on to earn the distinction of 2016 National Teacher of the Year (NTOY). In her capacity as NTOY, Hayes traveled the country and the world as an ambassador for public education engaging stakeholders in discussions meant to improve outcomes for students.

Congresswoman Hayes’ story is one of achievement despite the odds and overcoming the obstacles that life can place before you. She has been quoted as saying that “education saved her life” and is a fierce advocate for ensuring equitable access to opportunity for. Congresswoman Hayes strives to bring the same passion, determination, work ethic and empathy that her community has come to know and respect to the halls of Congress.

Hayes is a graduate of Naugatuck Valley Community College, Southern Connecticut State University, the University of Saint Joseph and the University of Bridgeport, having earned a Bachelor’s of Arts in history and secondary education, a Master’s of Arts in curriculum and instruction, and a 6th year degree in administrative leadership.

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Mayor Wilson was selected by the Council in 2022 to serve as Mayor Pro Team and in that capacity, he has developed an extensive training and mentoring program for freshman board and commission members. He has also become the first Certified Municipal Official of the City of Waynesville, through an extensive program offered by the Missouri Municipal League.

Since 2012 Mayor Wilson has been involved in his community in several capacities. He has served as a local Pastor of Greater Faith Church since 2011. He is an active Waynesville/ St. Robert Chamber member and volunteers his time as a Choices presenter, instructor for Leadership Pulaski County Classes, and instructor for the Junior Leadership Development Program. Sean was also the previous Government and Military Affairs Committee Chair (6 years), to name a few.

Mayor Wilson was also an active volunteer with the Waynesville R-VI School district as a Mentor for the Way Connect program to help highrisk youth. He played a critical role in initiating the program with Freedom Elementary. He has also volunteered his services with the "Dad's Mentoring Dad's" program in Phelps County, a program for fathers who did not have fathers.

Mayor Wilson is a retired Army Veteran who has served as a city council member since April 2019. Mayor Wilson began his service with the City of Waynesville as a Park Board member in June 2016, where he served for almost two years before being appointed as the Park Board President in 2018. He served as president for a year before being elected as councilman for Ward III. As a City Councilman, Mr. Wilson served on committees such as Roads and Grounds, Utilities, Waynesville/ St. Robert Regional Airport Board, and the Emergency Services and Police committee.

Mayor Wilson sits as a committee

member of the city’s Build it Better Program, which helps qualified families acquire assistance to help reduce their utility bills by improving their homes with energy efficient upgrades. He was also selected to serve as the representative for the City of Waynesville for the CARES Act program in 2020, where he helped distribute $1 million dollars to qualifying small businesses throughout the county. Mayor Wilson was also instrumental in donating his time and designing the digitalization of the application to improve the efficacy of submissions for that program.

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Victoria Woodards has called the “City of Destiny” her home for nearly her entire life. She is a proud graduate of Tacoma’s Lincoln High School and a veteran of the United States Army. Mayor Woodards served for seven years as an at-large member of the City Council before becoming Mayor in 2018. During that time, she launched the Equity and Empowerment initiative which led to the establishment of the City’s Office of Equity and Human Rights.

As Mayor, she continues to be a champion on equity issues and Anti-Racist systems transformation while expanding her involvement in regional and national efforts related to homelessness and affordable housing, public safety, support for youth and families, growing local business, and the creation of family wage jobs.

Under her leadership, the city appointed members to its first Commission on Immigrant and Refugee Affairs and launched Compassionate Tacoma to recognize acts of compassion and service in our community. She has also worked to engage the City’s youth more fully in community decisions that impact them every day, by expanding Student Government Day and establishing the City's first Youth Commission.

In partnership with County Executive Bruce Dammeier, County Council Member Ryan Mello, and former County Councilmember Connie Ladenburg, she convened leaders from across the County to explore opportunities for regional collaboration on affordable housing in the region, an initiative that formally came to be known as the South Sound Housing Affordability Partners.

As a founding member of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, Mayor Woodards partnered with United Way of Pierce County to launch 'Growing Resilience in Tacoma' or GRIT -- A local guaranteed income demonstration that has positively impacts 110 families in Tacoma and will inform future State and Federal policy efforts to address poverty.

Building on work she led in her first term; she is focused on continuing earn and learn workforce training models like the Introduction to Healthcare Apprentice Pilot to ensure residents have the freedom to achieve economic stability in a way that works for them.

At the United States Conference of Mayors, she serves on the advisory board; as ViceChair of the Committee on Jobs, Education, and the Workforce; and as Chair of the Women Mayors Leadership Alliance.

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The first member of Generation Z to be elected to Congress, Maxwell Alejandro Frost is proud to represent the people of Central Florida (FL-10) in the United States House of Representatives.

As a young Member of Congress and Afro-Latino, Congressman Frost brings a fresh, progressive perspective to an institution formerly out of reach for young, working Black and Latino Americans.

Frost was adopted at birth and raised in the very community he now represents. His mother, a CubanAmerican, came to the U.S. during the freedom flights in the late 1960s and became a special needs teacher in Central Florida, inspiring his advocacy for supporting future generations through education. And his father, a full-time musician, taught Congressman Frost his love for music, gifting him his first drum set and igniting his passion for the arts.

As a former organizer, musician, and community activist, Frost was inspired to get to work at 15 years old after the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary claimed the lives of 26 innocent people. From that moment on, Frost dedicated his life to

fighting against gun violence and empowering communities across Florida and the U.S. to get behind gun reform, including joining forces with those affected by the Parkland and Pulse shootings to shed light on this epidemic.

In 2016, after years of organizing and advocacy work, Frost himself became a survivor of gun violence after witnessing a shooting in downtown Orlando. The experience only further committed Frost to fight for commonsense solutions to this senseless loss of life through leadership roles at ACLU and eventually March for Our Lives, where he served as National Organizing Director.

Now, as a freshman member, Frost has been appointed to the powerful Committee on Oversight and Accountability, where he will deliver on his mission of ushering justice and transparency to Floridians while fighting against House Republicans extremist attempts to politicize the work of the committee by attacking democracy and promoting ridiculous MAGA conspiracies.

Frost will additionally use his post on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Congressman Frost, to support Central Florida’s burgeoning status as a simulation tech hub, which employs a strong workforce across major industries in Orlando, such as aerospace, defense, healthcare, and aviation. Congressman Frost will also use his committee post to reaffirm Florida’s status as a central hub for NASA and space exploration.

In Congress, Frost is committed to representing the people of his hometown in Orlando and Central Florida and being their voice in Washington, D.C. Frost is laser-focused on working to deliver change and results on issues of housing affordability, healthcare, abortion rights, LGBTQ+ rights, voting rights, transportation, justice reform, climate change and more.

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