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Saira Rao, a former Colorado congressional candidate and co-author of White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better, is co-founder of Here4TheKids and Race2Dinner. Here 4 The Kids is a movement calls on Colorado Governor Jared Polis to sign an Executive Order to ban guns and implement a statewide buyback program. Race2Dinner is an unconventional network of women and non-binary folx gathering together to discuss race with honesty and vulnerability.

Rao is also a co-founder and Creative Director of In This Together Media, a book packaging company of children's fiction with greater diversity in terms of gender, race, sexual orientation and experience. She is the author of Chambermaid (Grove Press) and The Madlands (forthcoming).

Previously, Saira was a television news producer in Washington D.C., and Miami; a policy associate at the Center for Educational Innovation at The Manhattan Institute; a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; and a lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York City. Saira is a graduate of the University of Virginia and New York University School of Law.

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