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Date: April 28, 2015
From: City Lit Books, Teresa Kirschbraun, Teresa@citylitbooks.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Michael Golden, author of Unlock Congress, in conversation with Marty Castro at City Lit Books (2523 N. Kedzie) on Tuesday, May 14th at 6:30 PM. Free event.
Join us at City Lit Books as we welcome Michael Golden and his debut book, Unlock Congress: Reform the Rules – Restore the System. He will be in conversation with Marty Castro, President and CEO of Castro Synergies and appointed by President Barack Obama as Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
In Unlock Congress, Michael Golden takes readers on an easy-to-understand historical expedition and investigation into the ways congressional failure leads to a harmful PRODUCT. Digging deeper, the book identifies the PROBLEM – how obsolete rules have led to major defects in the system. Finally, Unlock Congress lays out a PLATFORM designed to strengthen the system and reinvigorate both the process and its players.
Unlock Congress serves up startling facts and revealing stories to explore and explain Congress’s poor productivity. Once the defects that fuel the problem and their effects are summarized, Unlock Congress introduces a PLATFORM of principles and solutions geared toward unleashing our legislators’ true potential.
Michael Golden, author of Unlock Congress: Reform the Rules – Restore the System, has served as a campaign manager and communications strategist on political races for the White House, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House of Representatives. As a former broadcast journalist for NBC and CBS television, his investigative and public affairs reporting earned him honors from the Associated Press, the Edward R. Murrow Awards, and the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2006 Golden co-founded One Million Degrees, a nonprofit scholarship program that has empowered hundreds of low-income community college students to graduate and launch careers. Golden serves on the boards of the Shriver Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League, and he was selected by the Illinois General Assembly to serve on the state’s Commission to Eliminate Poverty.
Marty Castro is the President and CEO of Castro Synergies, LLC, which provides strategic consulting services to corporations, entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations that seek to collaborate with and have a positive social impact on diverse communities. Mr. Castro was appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in January of 2011. In December 2009, Mr. Castro was appointed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to Chair the Illinois Human Rights Commission. The Human Rights Commission is the State public body that arbitrates complaints of civil rights violations in housing, employment, public accommodations and financial credit. Mr. Castro is chair of the board of the National Museum of Mexican Art, the only accredited Latino Museum in the United States. He also serves on the board of the Chicago Community Trust.
ABOUT CITY LIT BOOKS:
City Lit Books is an independent bookstore located in Logan Square. Since opening in August 2012, City Lit Books has quickly become a literary hot spot thanks to its well-curated selections of fiction, non-fiction, science fiction and children’s books along with its rotating calendar of events.
Posted on May 2, 2015