Kara Eastman joined the AFC Board in 2024.  She is currently the Community Director for TYT, the largest online news network in the world. She has been the CEO for Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance in Omaha, Nebraska and for TPAN, Chicago’s oldest HIV-focused nonprofit. In 2014, she was publicly elected to the Board of Governors of Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, and in 2018 and 2020, she was the Democratic Nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2nd district of Nebraska. She has served as an appointee to Mayor of Omaha’s Fair Housing Advisory Board and the Nonprofit Association of the Midlands. She lives in the Ukrainian Village in Chicago with her husband.