2023 Maryland Jewish Advocacy Day

Join members of the Jewish Community from across Maryland for our annual Advocacy Day event. This virtual event will feature leaders from the community and keynote speakers Comptroller Brooke Lierman and Treasurer Dereck Davis.

Due to the major construction projects taking place around the State House, the large meeting rooms are not available this year, so we are forced to continue our virtual option for 2023.

Date & Time

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Location

Virtual


Co-Sponsors

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Speakers

Brooke Lierman, Maryland State Comptroller

Brooke Lierman Maryland State Comptroller

Ex Officio member of the Board since January 16, 2023

As Maryland Comptroller, Brooke Lierman holds an ex officio seat on the Board of Trustees.

Trustee Lierman is a civil rights and disability rights attorney, a mother and a two–term State Delegate representing the 46th Legislative District. She served for five years as a member of the Appropriations Committee before assuming a leadership role on the Environment and Transportation Committee in 2019. Before her election as Comptroller, she also served as the House Chair for the Joint Committee on Pensions, sat on the Joint Committee on Ending Homelessness, and founded and formerly co–chaired the Maryland Transit Caucus.

In the House of Delegates, Trustee Lierman wrote landmark legislation that invests in public transit, funds reading supports for public school students, closed loopholes in paid family leave laws, prevents source-of-income discrimination in housing, promotes evidence-based gun violence interruption programs, and established a first-in-the-nation Styrofoam ban.

Comptroller Lierman resides in Baltimore’s Fell’s Point neighborhood with her husband and two children.

Dereck E. Davis, 24th Maryland State Treasurer

Dereck E. Davis 24th Maryland State Treasurer

Dereck E. Davis was elected and sworn in as the 24th Maryland State Treasurer in December 2021. In addition to Treasurer Davis' responsibilities for managing the Office of the State Treasurer, he serves as the chief representative of the State dealing with financial rating agencies and investment banking firms.  Additionally, as a Constitutional Officer and a representative of the General Assembly, the Treasurer serves on a number of key State Boards and financial planning committees.