PA State Treasurer Stacy Garrity to Address 2025 PA Leadership Conference

Registration NOW OPEN at ‘Early Bird’ Rates

(Harrisburg, PA) – Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity will be a speaker at the
2025 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference to be held April 3-5, 2025 at the Penn
Harris Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania.

Treasurer Garrity will join the featured dinner speaker Kayleigh McEnany, former
White House press secretary and current co-host of Outnumbered on the Fox News
Channel; Pennsylvania Auditor General Tim DeFoor; and U.S. Representative Dan
Meuser as announced speakers.

The conference will also feature the popular State of the Conservative Movement panel
moderated by Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring, USA and featuring John Gizzi, White
House correspondent for Newsmax, Dr. Paul Kengor editor-in-chief of the American
Spectator and Jeff Lord of Newsmax.

The Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is the premiere gathering of public policy
conservatives each year in the Keystone State. It is the largest and longest-running of
the state-based conservative conferences regularly attracting a long list of conservative
elected officials, scholars, journalists, and activists for three days of speeches, panel
presentations, workshops, and networking.

Registration for the 2025 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is NOW OPEN at
www.paleadershipconference.org. The Early Bird discount rate is built into the

registration so there is no need to enter a discount code as it will be automatically
applied. (The PLC web site also includes a brief video tutorial to help you navigate
Cvent.)

Stacy Garrity is the 78th Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
businesswoman and retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel. She is focused on
transparency, cutting waste and fees, returning more than $4.5 billion in unclaimed
property to its rightful owners, and making education affordable for Pennsylvanians.
Stacy understands the challenges that Pennsylvania families face, and she brings the
same common sense that people use to manage their own finances to the Treasurer’s
office.

After graduating from Sayre High School in Bradford County, Stacy earned a degree in
finance and economics from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and later received
a certificate from the Cornell University Business Management Institute.
While serving as a colonel in the Army Reserve, Stacy received national attention for
her decorated service on the battlefields of Iraq. While news raged about scandals
involving prisoner abuse at other facilities, Stacy was highlighted for her stellar
performance as one of the officers in charge of an internment camp for enemy
combatants in Iraq.

Iraqis dubbed her “the Angel of the Desert” when her service at Camp Bucca in
Southern Iraq resulted in a perfect record. She kept the camp secure and American
troops safe without a single complaint of abuse from Iraqi soldiers interned there.
Stacy served a remarkable three deployments in defense of the United States: in 1991
in Operation Desert Storm, in 2003 in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and in 2008 in
Operation Enduring Freedom. She was awarded the Bronze Star twice for exceptional
service and received the Legion of Merit before retiring from the Army Reserve with the
rank of colonel.

While serving in the Army Reserve, Stacy started work as a cost accountant at Global
Tungsten & Powders Corp., a global supplier of refractory powders in Towanda, and
worked her way up to become the first of two female vice presidents at the company.
Stacy was elected to her first term on November 3, 2020, and was sworn into office on
January 19, 2021. She was elected to her second term on November 5, 2024, and was
sworn in on January 21, 2025.

As Pennsylvania Treasurer, Stacy oversees an office of more than 300 employees and
is tasked with protecting more than $160 billion in state assets. Among her many duties,
she serves as a fiscal watchdog for the state and manages the PA 529 College &
Career Savings Program, Keystone Scholars, the PA ABLE Savings Program for people

with disabilities, and the INVEST program for local government agencies and nonprofit
organizations. She also administers the state’s unclaimed property program.

She has worked to make PA 529 accounts work better for all Pennsylvanians by cutting
fees (saving account holders more than $16.5 million), eliminating the minimum deposit
required to open an account, and allowing families to make contributions as low as $1.
During her tenure, the number of PA 529 accounts has grown to more than 300,000
while total assets have grown to more than $8 billion.

Stacy has also cut fees for PA ABLE multiple times. Under her leadership, the number
of PA ABLE accounts has grown to more than 9,750, and total PA ABLE assets have
nearly tripled to over $135 million. She was elected as the inaugural Chair of the ABLE
Savings Plans Network, a group formed by the National Association of State
Treasurers, and she was a vocal advocate for the federal ABLE Age Adjustment Act,
which will make ABLE programs available to an additional 6 million people with
disabilities – including 1 million veterans.

Stacy is committed to making it as easy as possible for people to receive unclaimed
property which belongs to them. She oversaw the first systemwide upgrade to
Treasury’s unclaimed property system in more than 15 years, implemented a fast-track
return system for simple claims, introduced the use of direct deposit payments, and
added Pennsylvania to the national website MissingMoney.com. She has returned more
than $750 million of unclaimed property to its rightful owners – including setting records
for the most unclaimed property returned in a single year ($274 million in FY 22-23) and
the most returned in a two-year period (over $505 million combined in FY 22-23 and FY
23-24). Through bipartisan collaboration with the General Assembly, Stacy championed
Pennsylvania Money Match, Act 81 of 2024, which allows the Pennsylvania Treasury
Department to now return single-owner unclaimed property valued at $500 or less to
Pennsylvanians automatically.

As a veteran, Stacy is also focused on returning the hundreds of military decorations
being safeguarded in Treasury’s vault. These medals and other decorations usually
come to Treasury from forgotten safe deposit boxes and include dog tags, medals,
campaign ribbons, Purple Hearts, and even Bronze Stars. She has returned more than
450 military decorations to the veterans who earned them or their families, including 11
Purple Hearts and 3 Bronze Stars.

Committed to her local community, Stacy serves on the board of Bradford County
United Way and is a trustee of Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre.

Register for the 2025 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference TODAY at www.paleaderhipconference.org.