When: January 8th, 5:30pm-7:30pmpm

Where: Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, Half Moon Bay, CA, 94019

Admission and snacks are complimentary. Beer, wine, and other beverages will be available for sale at the event. Ten percent of the proceeds from all dinner sales at Half Moon Bay Brewing Company for this event will be donated to the Cabrillo Education Foundation.

Join Lenny Menonca, Common Cause National Board Member for a fireside chat with Virginia Kase Solomón, Common Cause President.

Common Cause’s recent accomplishments include:

• Recruited, trained, and deployed 15,000 Election Protection volunteers

• Activated 20,000 young people to vote in North Carolina

• Won fair maps in Wisconsin

• Defeated prison gerrymandering in Minnesota

• Banned deep fakes in political ads in California

• Protected public financing for campaigns in Florida

Guest and Moderator Bios:

Virginia Kase Solomón

As President and CEO of Common Cause, Virginia leverages her 30 years of experience in advocacy, organizing, and policy to deliver pro-democracy wins at every level of government. She is the organization’s tenth president, fourth woman, and first Hispanic person to lead in the permanent role.

Prior to joining Common Cause, she served as CEO of the League of Women Voters where she led the organization through rapid growth and success. Under her watch the organization expanded state capacity, tripled the budget and staff, and increased membership by 30 percent. She led the League’s “No Excuses” campaign that successfully pressured President Biden to support ending the filibuster for voting rights legislation.

Lenny Mendonca, Moderator

Co-founder of the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, Former Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He is also the Founding Chair of the Coastside News Group (Half Moon Bay Review and Pacifica Tribune).