BIG news! Our Closing Keynote at Alt Summit 2025 is lawyer, professor, and three-term California Congresswoman, Katie Porter.
Katie Porter has been called “Congress’ toughest questioner” and “the leadership we desperately need.”
After the 2016 election, Katie launched her first-ever campaign, motivated out of concern about Donald Trump. Two years later, she flipped the congressional seat from red to blue and became the first Democrat to represent the area in 75 years. Katie served three terms in Congress, receiving national attention for taking on Trump administration officials who failed Californians. In March 2020, when we had few tools to address the pandemic, her dogged oversight of Trump’s CDC Director, with her whiteboard, secured free COVID testing for every American.
In Congress, Katie passed bills to stop corporate cheaters and strengthen disaster response. She wrote new laws that crack down on health insurers wrongfully denying care and save patients thousands of dollars from Big Pharma’s unreasonable price hikes. She also passed legislation that would raise firefighter pay and strengthen mental health treatment for first responders.
This year, Katie returned to teaching at the UC Irvine School of Law, where she is training a new generation of consumer advocates. As a UCI professor before going to Congress, Katie was appointed by then-Attorney General Kamala Harris to be California’s independent monitor of banks in a nationwide $25 billion mortgage settlement, helping families get back on their feet in the aftermath of the foreclosure crisis.
Katie is a single mom of three kids and lives with her family in Irvine, California. And she is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan. Copies of Katie’s book will be available in the Pop-up bookshop at the conference — be sure to pick up a copy, because if you’d like to meet her, Katie will be signing books at 3pm on Sunday, right before her closing keynote.
Porter will be interviewed on the Alt Keynote Stage by Alt Summit founder, Gabrielle Blair, on Sunday afternoon at 4:00 PM. We’ve been so inspired by Katie and know you will be too.
