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Come join us as we get to hear from Natalie Bright, KS SHRM Lobbyist!! She is going to provide us with legislative updates and let us know what is currently going on in the KS HR world currently. Natalie Bright is super knowledgable in this area and is very active with HR professionals, see below. 

Natalie Bright has more than twenty-five years of experience working on behalf of Kansas businesses and associations assuring Kansas has a healthy and competitive business environment. Her expertise is in advising and advocating on business issues, specifically in the areas of taxation, human resources, insurance, business development, judicial reform and transportation.

Bright has a joint degree in business administration and political science from the University of California-Riverside. She received her law degree from Washburn School of Law in 1998 and began lobbying for the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry during the 1998 Legislative Session. In 1989, Bright left the Chamber to work as a contract lobbyist. In 2008, Bright joined her law school classmate, Marlee Carpenter, and opened her current firm.

Bright is active in a variety of statewide business coalitions and has been part of several reform efforts including workers’ compensation, immigration, unemployment compensation and health care reform efforts. During her career, she has worked on several key pieces of legislation including the 2012 Workers Compensation Reforms, which passed unanimously and the 2013 Kansas Unemployment Insurance Compensation Reforms. Bright is licensed to practice law in the state of Kansas and resides in Shawnee, Kan. with her husband, Kevin, and their four children.