Registration NOW OPEN at ‘Early Bird’ Rates
(Harrisburg, PA) – Mary Catherine Ham, political commentator, author, speaker and podcast host will be among the kick-off speakers at the 2024 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference. She has brought a conservative perspective to appearances on Fox News and CNN. She currently hosts the light-hearted news podcast Get Hammered!
The 2024 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will be held April 4-6, 2024 at the Penn Harris Hotel & Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), PA.
Judge Jeanine Pirro of The Five on Fox News will be the conference’s featured dinner speaker on Friday, April 5, 2024. John Gizzi of Newsmax will be the conference breakfast speaker and will then be joined by Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring USA, Dr. Paul Kengor, editor-in-chief of the American Spectator, and Jeff Lord a Newsmax and American Spectator contributor for the annual State of the Conservative Movement panel. Additional speakers include Thomas D. Homan who was Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Trump Administration, state Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman, Heritage Foundation President Kevin D. Roberts, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity, and Daniel Garza of the LIBRE Initiative. Additional speakers will be announced over the coming weeks.
The 2024 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference to be held April 4-6, 2024 at the Penn Harris Hoten & Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania will include four policy panel presentations including: A Legislature Divided, moderated by Greg Moreland from the National Federation of Independent Business-PA; Securing Pennsylvania’s Energy Future, moderated by Carl Marrara of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association; Data Driven Approach to Mobilizing Millions, moderated by Emily Greene from Americans for Prosperity-PA; and Pregnancy Centers: Protecting Pregnancy Help Statewide moderated by Cheryl Allen from the Pennsylvania Family Institute.
The Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is the premiere gathering of public policy conservatives each year in the Keystone State. It is the largest and longest-running of the state-based conservative conferences regularly attracting a long list of conservative elected officials, scholars, journalists, and activists for three days of speeches, panel presentations, workshops, and networking.
Registration for the 2024 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is NOW OPEN at www.paleadershipconference.org. The Early Bird discount rate is built into the registration so there is no need to enter a discount code as it will be automatically applied. (The PLC web site also includes a brief video tutorial to help you navigate Cvent.)
The 2024 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will include an expanded menu of workshop opportunities. Please note that admission to the workshops is INCLUDED in the conference registration fee and no additional registration is required. A complete description of each workshop along with information on the workshop presenters is available at www.paleadershipconference.org.
Mary Katharine Ham is a nationally prominent journalist, author and speaker, and host of her own light-hearted news podcast, “Getting Hammered.” As a Political Commentator, she has brought conservative perspective mixed with a humorous take on politics and pop culture to CNN from 2016 to 2022 and Fox News from 2007-2015.
She’s also a frequent speaker on college campuses on the issue of free speech. In 2016, she moderated an ABC News 2016 GOP presidential primary debate in New Hampshire, which featured nine candidates.
Ham is the co-author with Guy Benson of End of Discussion: How the Left’s Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun), and has written for The Atlantic, USA Today, and the New York Post.
She also has spoken and written on her faith and overcoming hardships after the loss of her first husband in 2015. Remarried in 2020, Ham brings a message of resilience and redemption to audiences. Ham is a die-hard UGA football fan, a Southern gal who is close to her family in North Carolina. She lives with her husband, three daughters, newborn son, and a very energetic Belgian Malino.
Workshops to be presented on
Thursday, April 4th from 9 A.M. until 4 P.M. include:
Leadership Institute
Grassroots Lobbying
The Real Nature of Politics
Grow Your Organization
Engaging With School Boards
Messaging to the Middle
Voter Registration
Freedom Works
Navigating Political Divisions: Innovative Strategies for Grassroots Leaders to Expand their Base in a Polarized Climate
Save Our States
State Action: Protect Elections, Stop the CCP, Save the Constitution
American Majority
Five Steps to a Successful 2024
Workshops to be presented on
Friday, April 5th from 8 AM until 11 AM:
Pennsylvania Family Institute
Books, Bongs & Abortion: Protecting Children from the Left’s Agenda in PA.
CO2 Coalition
Indoctrination or Science? The State of Science Education in America and Pennsylvania
Americans for Prosperity
Building an Effective Grassroots Operation
Register for the 2024 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference TODAY at www.paleadershipconference.org