Paducah Chamber February breakfast to feature SaMee Burrage Harden
FOX23 News at 9 p.m.
PADUCAH, Ky., (KBSI) — The Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce will host Paducah native SaMee Burrage Harden as the featured speaker for its Feb. 5 Power in Partnership Breakfast.
The event, which honors Black History Month, is sponsored by the McCracken County Chapter of the NAACP and the McCracken County Community Career Endowment.
The breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m. at the Paducah-McCracken County Convention Center. Pre-registration is required by 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2, at paducahchamber.org or by calling 270-443-1746. Power Card holders are not required to pre-register. The cost is $25.
Harden is a graduate of Paducah Tilghman High School and the daughter of the late Sam and Barbara Burrage, longtime community leaders in Paducah. She has served as a White House Fellow and as a senior official with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Before her White House Fellowship, Harden worked at Facebook/Meta as a data privacy and public policy manager. She previously served as a federal prosecutor, specializing in child exploitation and human trafficking cases, and received multiple awards for her work.
Harden is an alumna of Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Business School, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law — where she currently serves as an adjunct professor — the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, American University and the University of Louisville.