Horn’s Republican opponent, incumbent congresswoman Stephanie Bice, labored in finance, advertising, and enterprise technique at her household’s know-how firm for eight years. Bice additionally had an government position at a digital advertising company and at the moment serves on the Home Committee on Science, Area, and Know-how.
Aiming to be a ‘highly effective’ position mannequin for variety
Within the coronary heart of Horn’s electoral district, Mitzi Westerman runs a tech consulting agency in Oklahoma Metropolis. Throughout Horn’s 2022 senate run, they met briefly to speak about girls in politics and cybersecurity over lunch. Westerman says Horn, if elected, could possibly be a strong position mannequin for variety inside each politics and tech.
“I couldn’t be extra enthusiastic about the potential of somebody with Madison’s background, talent set, expertise, and perspective being in the USA Congress. We’re positively underrepresented as girls, in know-how and within the management of our nation at this second. So I believe it’s vastly impactful,” says Westerman, president and proprietor of mGroup IT and Telecommunications.