Representative G.A. Hardaway (D-TN) is a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, representing District 93. He assumed office in 2006. His current term ends on November 5, 2024.

Hardaway is running for re-election to the Tennessee House of Representatives to represent District 93. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024. He advanced from the Democratic primary on August 1, 2024.

Biography

Hardaway earned his B.S. in finance from DePaul University. He is a real estate investor.

State Rep. Dontavius Jarrells currently serves in his first term representing Ohio’s 25th House District, including Columbus, Clinton Township, and Mifflin Township.

Growing up in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland, Rep. Jarrells saw firsthand the lack of affordable housing, safety, education, employment, and other essential services have on families. After nearly a decade fighting for disadvantaged and marginalized communities across Ohio, Rep. Jarrells is committed to advancing commonsense legislation to make Ohio a better place to live, work, go to school, start a business and raise a family. During his first term in elected office, Rep. Jarrells introduced legislation to increase Ohio’s minimum wage to $15/hr., eliminate discriminatory covenants from deeds during property transfers, remove derogatory language within the state’s code, and designate Columbus’ Poindexter Village as an official Ohio Historical site.

Mr. James Williams, Director, Federal Relations- Cancer Prevention, Early Detection and Screening American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network A native Washingtonian, James M. Williams, Jr, is a graduate of Fisk University with a degree in African History and Public Administration. He is currently director of federal affairs for cancer prevention, early detection and screening with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Before joining ACS CAN, he was director of federal affairs for Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, where he helped secure the only branch of NIH outside Bethesda, MD on their campus. Between 1988 – 2011 James served as a top staffer on Capitol Hill to six different members of Congress, including as Chief of Staff to Rep. John Lewis and Legislative Director/Appropriations Staffer to Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick. He currently serves on over six different non-profit boards with a primary focus on the differently-abled and recently retired after 10 years from West Point’s Board of Admissions. He and his wife Patrice share five adult children.

Ms. Shonta Chambers transitioned back to the non-profit sector in 2014 by joining PAF. She leads the development and execution of strategic initiatives to expand PAF’s approach to achieve health equity through community and national level partnership engagement and mobilization. These initiatives are designed to link limited income communities to resources to abate financial, logistical and social access to care barriers. She brings to this role nearly 20 years of non-profit and public sector middle and senior level experience that spans public health, women’s health and behavioral health.

Additionally, she serves as the Principal Investigator on record as part of DP13-1314 CDC’s National Networks to Reduce Cancer and Tobacco Related Disparities Cooperative Agreement. In this role, she administers the SelfMade Health Network a national network focused on reducing cancer and tobacco related disparities among populations with low socio-economic characteristics.

Shonta enjoys mentoring young women, golf, and watching her sons play baseball.

Ira N. Goldman is Vice President, Global Public Policy and Government Relations, Lantheus Holdings. He is Co-Chair of the Isotope Supply Committee, Council on Radioisotopes and Radiopharmaceuticals (CORAR) and Vice-Chairman of the Security of Supply Working Group, Nuclear Medicine Europe.

Mr. Goldman is responsible for development and execution of Lantheus’s strategy and actions for public and healthcare policy, including legislative strategy and interactions with the U.S. Congress as well as relationships with Executive Branch agencies. He coordinates Lantheus’s involvement with trade associations, business and regional advocacy groups and medical societies. He also interacts with U.S. and foreign governments and international organizations regarding medical isotope production and supply matters.    

Mr Goldman was Scientific Officer in the IAEA Department of Nuclear Energy, Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology dealing with research reactor issues, including technical and policy matters. These activities covered conversion of research reactor fuel and medical isotope production targets from HEU to low-enriched uranium (LEU), research reactor fuel repatriation programmes, and research reactor fuel cycle economic analysis. Mr. Goldman was responsible for a number of IAEA activities related to the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) and for planning, preparation, conduct and follow-up of international scientific meetings and Coordinated Research Projects (CRPs) involving scientific institutions of developed and developing countries. 

Mr Goldman was Science Attache, U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, Austria (1996-2004), from the Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). He interacted with three major IAEA programmes, including radioisotopes and nuclear medicine, nuclear energy, waste management and the fuel cycle and technical cooperation. He was responsible for overseeing $20 million in U.S. extrabudgetary contributions to the IAEA and for interactions with senior U.S., DOE, IAEA, and foreign government officials.

Mr Goldman also worked at U.S. DOE, Washington, D.C., in the Office of Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, International Safeguards Division (1992-1996) as coordinator for IAEA activities and served as the DOE representative to the U.S. Delegation to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation (NPT) Review and Extension Conference (1995). He also worked at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (now U.S. Department of State, 1985-1992); and as Senior Policy Analyst at the Meridian Corporation (now Dyncorp, 1981-1985); and at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress (1980-1981).

Mr Goldman earned a Master of Arts in International Affairs (with distinction) from the Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC in 1980, including study at the Johns Hopkins Centre for European Studies in Bologna, Italy (1978-1979). Mr Goldman earned a Bachelor of Arts (with honours) in History and was Phi Beta Kappa at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut in 1978.