Kara Eastman is the Community Director for TYT. She was the Democratic nominee for Congress in the second district of Nebraska in 2018 and 2020. Kara started Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance and has grown OHKA from a small, start-up lead poisoning prevention organization to a nationally recognized, award-winning nonprofit that raised more than $13 million to support green, safe and healthy housing in Omaha. In 2014, she overwhelmingly won election to the Board of Governors of Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, one of the top ten community colleges in the country. Eastman has been a board member of the Nonprofit Association of the Midlands and has served as an appointed member of the Mayor of Omaha's Fair Housing Advisory Board. She and her husband Scott Eastman, an associate professor of history at Creighton University, have one daughter, Sabina. Kara is originally from Chicago and has a Master’s in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago. Her primary experiences have been with start-up nonprofits focusing on social and health issues. She has worked as the director of Rainbow House, a domestic violence shelter in Chicago; helped start Extra Hands for ALS, a national, student-based volunteer program assisting patients with Lou Gehrig’s Disease; and was the director of Friendship Shelter, a shelter and transitional housing program for adults. Kara also was the CEO of TPAN, the oldest HIV-focused nonprofit in Chicago. She is currently a board member and co-chair of the racial equity committee for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. In her free time, Kara cooks, writes, practices yoga, and travels.