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Candidate, US House AR-01
Rodney Govens is a U.S. Army veteran, husband and father, and longtime Court Appointed Special Advocate for abused and neglected children. Rodney was born into a military family in Germany and grew up in Columbia, S.C., spending his teen years in foster care.
He has lived in Cabot since 2017 with his wife of 19 years, Stacy, and their twins, Grayson and Zoey, who are 7.
During his 3.5 years in the Army, Rodney was an E-4 Specialist with 596 Signal Company from Fort Riley, Kansas, and deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Service honors awarded included the Army Achievement Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, among others.
Since his honorable discharge in 2005, Govens has worked as operations manager for broadband and telecom providers serving rural Arkansas — a role that introduced him to Arkansans in rural communities and small towns all over the Natural State.
In this episode, Rodney Govens, the Democratic nominee for the 1st Congressional District in Arkansas, makes his case as to why he should go to Washington, D.C. and Dr. Emiliana Vegas of Harvard University discusses her new b...