Horn’s Republican opponent, incumbent congresswoman Stephanie Bice, labored in finance, advertising, and enterprise technique at her household’s expertise firm for eight years. Bice additionally had an govt function 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’ function 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, might be a robust function 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 undoubtedly underrepresented as girls, in expertise and within the management of our nation at this second. So I feel it’s massively impactful,” says Westerman, president and proprietor of mGroup IT and Telecommunications.