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Independent Women’s Forum is pleased to announce that former Hawaii U.S. representative and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard — who made headlines recently when the left the Democratic Party — is the latest entry in our popular series of Champion Women profiles ([link removed]) .

Gabbard was the recipient of IWF’s Resilience Award at our 2022 Annual Awards Gala the same week she resigned from her former political party. When Gabbard was a Democratic contender for the presidency in 2020, she won an intriguing distinction: after the public watched her performances in the early debates, Gabbard became the most Googled candidate in the Democratic field.

Chalk it up to Gabbard’s willingness to express thoughtful opinions on policy, domestic and foreign, veering far from the accepted positions of both major political parties. Gabbard would win the award for the category of Most Impossible to Pigeonhole, if there were such an award. She has always been willing to take a great deal of heat for being a maverick but doesn’t flinch.

How did Gabbard become such a resilient figure on the American political landscape? She has a fascinating biography that TV audiences watching her independent-minded commentary might not know. She was born on American Samoa to entrepreneurial parents who were pioneers in homeschooling. She was moved to join the military by the attacks of 911. Gabbard enlisted in the Hawaii Army National Guard and served in Iraq. She first deployed to Iraq as a member of a field medical unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard, and again as a military police platoon leader. She is the first Hindu and Samoan American elected to Congress.

Gabbard endorsed Biden after she dropped out of the 2020 presidential primary. What does she think of the Biden administration now? “I’ve never seen a more dangerous time in our country. To have people in power who are essentially weaponizing public institutions, law enforcement agencies that exist to keep us safe, against those who are either political opponents or people who disagree with this administration’s policies and actions, characterizing those people as extremists or as threats.”

We know you will enjoy meeting the thoughtful and courageous woman behind the headlines and learning about what she thinks it will take to reclaim our country.
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Charlotte Hays
Cultural Director
Independent Women's Forum
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