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On Saturday, February 1, DNC members voted to elect a new slate of DNC Officers including positions for Chair, Vice Chair of Civic Engagement and Voter Participation, three Vice Chairs, Secretary, Treasurer, and National Finance Chair. 

The new elected DNC Officers include:

• Chair: Ken Martin 
• Vice Chair for Civic Engagement and Voter Participation (CEVP): Reyna Walters-Morgan
• Vice Chair (three positions): Artie Blanco, Malcolm Kenyatta, and David Hogg
• Secretary: Jason Rae 
• Treasurer: Virginia McGregor 
• National Finance Chair: Chris Korge 

Read more about the DNC Officers:

Ken Martin will serve as Chair. 

Ken Martin has served as the Chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party since 2011 — making him the longest serving Chair in the 75-year history of the DFL. 

Ken made the DFL what it is today — an all-day, year-round party dedicated to organizing communities, empowering the grassroots, electing progressive candidates, and improving the lives of Minnesotans.

Given his success as the DFL Party Chairman, Ken was elected by his peers across the country to serve as the President of the Association of State Democratic Chairs in 2017, where he works with state and local party committees to build permanent, long-lasting political infrastructure so they can elect candidates from the school board to the Oval Office.

Before his election as Chairman, Ken spent two decades working for progressive candidates and causes. He played key leadership roles on various campaigns, including Dayton for Governor in 2010, Hatch for Governor in 2006, Kerry for President in 2004, Humphrey for Secretary of State in 2002, and Gore for President in 2000. Ken led the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment campaign in 2008, which dedicated funding to the arts, environment, conservation, and parks and trails in Minnesota. It is the largest conservation finance measure in the nation to ever become law.

Ken and his wife, Jennifer O’Rourke, live in Eagan, Minnesota with their two sons.

Reyna Walters-Morgan will serve as Vice Chair for Civic Engagement and Voter Participation. 

Reyna Walters-Morgan is an organizer, attorney and voting rights advocate. After law school, she spent time in private practice and as a Senior Attorney at the Social Security Administration. Later, she worked as a Regional Voter Protection Director in Ohio and managed NC’s nonprofit voter protection efforts.

For almost five years, she was the Voter Protection Director at the DNC, where she built an award-wining program and modernized resources. She most recently served as an appointee to the U.S. Department of Justice in the Biden-Harris Administration.

She is a proud UNC Tar Heel, Howard Bison, and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Artie Blanco, Malcolm Kenyatta, and David Hogg will serve as DNC Vice Chairs. 

Artie Blanco

Artie is a longtime union member who currently represents Nevada as a DNC member serving on the Rules and Bylaws Committee and the Executive Committee. Artie began her political career as a college student working for Congressman Gene Green in Houston. She joined the DNC family in 2005 as the Southwest Political Director after working for NALEO, the Texas Legislature, and the DCCC. In 2009, in response to Senator Reid’s call to action to expand the Latino electorate, Artie moved to Nevada to lead a non-profit civic engagement organization to register, persuade, and increase Latino voters, resulting in record Latino turnout in 2010. In 2012, the National AFL-CIO hired Artie as Nevada State Director, then Regional Campaigns Coordinator and appointed her in 2023 as the National Campaign Director for the AFL-CIO. 

Malcolm Kenyatta

Representative Malcolm Kenyatta is a legislator currently serving in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. In 2023, he was appointed by President Joe Biden to chair the Presidential Advisory Commission on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans.

Representative Kenyatta is a barrier-breaking public figure, becoming the first openly LGBTQ+ person of color and one of the youngest people elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 2018. In 2022, he became the first openly LGBTQ+ person of color to seek a U.S. Senate seat in American history. In April 2024, he made history again as the first openly LGBTQ+ person ever nominated for statewide office by a major political party in Pennsylvania when he became the Democratic nominee for Auditor General. In the general election, he earned nearly 3.1 million votes, the second-highest vote total for any Democrat on the ticket that year.

Throughout his career, Representative Kenyatta has been a vocal proponent of protecting workers’ rights and rooting out government corruption and waste. He holds multiple legislative leadership roles, including as a member of the powerful State Government Committee with oversight of state agencies and elections, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Government Operations; Chair of the Financial Services and Banking Subcommittee in the Commerce Committee; and as a member of the Finance and Judiciary Committees.

Representative Kenyatta lives in North Philadelphia with his husband, Dr. Matthew Kenyatta, and their dog, Cleo.

David Hogg

David Hogg was thrust into the world of activism by the largest school shooting in American history, Parkland survivor David Hogg has become one of the most compelling voices of his generation. Alongside his classmates and fellow survivors, David co-founded March For Our Lives, one of the world’s preeminent youth-led movements. In 2023, David Hogg and Kevin Lata, co-founded Leaders We Deserve. LWD is dedicated to recruiting, training, and funding young progressives running for Congress and State Legislatures across the country. David travels across the United States to support Gen Z and younger Millennial candidates working to transform the future of the Democratic Party.

Jason Rae will continue to serve as Secretary.

A lifelong Democrat, Jason Rae will be continuing as secretary — a role he assumed in 2017.  As secretary, he also serves as the DNC Executive and Rules & Bylaws Committee. Before he could even drive, Jason would ride his bike to county party meetings in rural Barron County, Wisconsin. He was first elected to the DNC in 2004 when he was just 17 years old, the youngest person ever elected, and was re-elected three times. Secretary Rae served as Chair of the DNC Youth Council from 2007 to 2017. He also founded and currently serves as President & CEO for the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce, an award-winning organization with more than 600 business members. He is a partner at the Milwaukee-based public affairs firm Nation Consulting. Rae lives in Glendale, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, with his husband, Phillip.

Virginia McGregor will continue to serve as Treasurer. 

Virginia McGregor currently serves on the Board of McGregor Industries, a union steel manufacturer in Northeast Pennsylvania that has been in the McGregor family for 106 years. They service the national commercial construction industry, specializing in stairs and railings for high-rise buildings. She also serves as Chair of the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, and is a Board Member of the nationally-recognized Geisinger Health System. 

Virginia has spent her entire adult life active in Democratic politics — local, state and federal. Her entry into presidential politics was in 2016 with the Hillary Clinton race, when Virginia was part of her National Finance Committee. During Tom Perez’s tenure, Virginia became a Deputy National Finance Director at the Democratic National Committee. 

She was appointed in 2021 by President Joseph Biden to serve as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, a position she is very proud to currently hold. She served as National Co-Chair for Women for Biden and Women for Harris, and is a longtime National Co-Chair of the DNC’s Women’s Leadership Forum.

Virginia and her husband Bob reside in Scranton, Pennsylvania. They are parents to six children and grandparents to four.

Chris Korge will continue to serve as National Finance Chair. 

Christopher G. Korge is an attorney, retailer and real estate developer. He has served as the elected National Finance Chairman since 2019. Previously, he was National Finance Chairman for Hillary Clinton for President, National Finance Vice-Chairman for the DNC, and Chairman of the Democratic Business Council for the DNC. He has served in the past as a Trustee for the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee and Trustee of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He has had a national reputation for over twenty six years as one of the most prolific national Democratic fundraisers in America for each and every Democratic nominee since President Clinton was elected in 1992.

Chris has been extremely involved in charitable activities in the community, including serving on the Florida International University Foundation Board, Vice Chairman of the Urban League of Greater Miami, and is involved with numerous other organizations.