Kara Eastman was the Democratic nominee for Congress in the second district of Nebraska in 2018 and 2020. She has over twenty years of experience in public service and leading social service and nonprofit organizations. 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 has 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, a student at Pitzer College in California. 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 homeless adults. She is currently the President of Kara Eastman Partners, a nonprofit-consulting firm in Omaha. In her free time, Kara cooks, writes, practices yoga, and travels.