Please join the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa for this year’s Liberty Gala.

We are honored to have Tulsi Gabbard as our featured guest. The reception begins at 6 p.m. and our dinner and program start at 7 p.m.  

Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, four-term Congresswoman, and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is a combat veteran who has been deployed to the Middle East and Africa. 

She currently serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves working as a Civil Affairs officer. Gabbard first served in elected office in the Hawaii State House of Representatives when she was 21 years old. After the attacks on 9/11, she enlisted in the Army National Guard. 

In 2004, Gabbard gave up an easy reelection campaign and volunteered to deploy to Iraq with the 29th Brigade Combat Team where she served in a medical unit. After returning home in 2006, she worked in the U.S. Senate as a legislative aide to the late Senator Danny Akaka, who was Chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. She then volunteered for a second Middle East deployment as a Platoon Leader. 

Having experienced firsthand the true cost of war, and in memory of her brothers and sisters in uniform, she ran for Congress at 31 years old, vowing to honor their lives and sacrifice. She prevailed in a difficult election and went on to serve for eight years in Congress as a member of the Armed Services, Homeland Security, and Foreign Affairs Committees, where she dealt with highly sensitive national security issues. She has always done her best to put country before party and approaches every issue, domestic and foreign, through the lens of what will best ensure the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.

Please save the date for this special night.

For more information, please call 405-602-1667.