Join Mary Kramer, former Iowa state senator and former ambassador to Barbados, for lunch at The Harkin Institute!

Apply here today to join Mary Kramer for lunch at The Harkin Institute on Tuesday, May 2. The lunch begins at 11:15 a.m. and is part of a series that brings a small group of Drake students together to enjoy lunch and conversation with a local, state, or national leader.

Mary Kramer served as a state senator for 13 years before being appointed in 2003 by President George W. Bush to the position of ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean (including Dominica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis). Mary served in that position from 2004 to 2006. In 2009, she was inducted into the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame. Mary is a lifetime member of the Society for Human Resource Management.

—Erin Austin, The Harkin Institute