First Lady To Host Ukraine Ambassador At SOTU Speech

Via press release from the White House:

First Lady Jill Biden will welcome selected guests from across the United States to join her in the viewing box for President Biden’s State of the Union Address this evening, Tuesday, March 1, 2022.

Each of these individuals, with their resilience, innovation, service, and courage, were chosen by the White House because they represent policies or themes to be addressed by the President in his speech.

The Second Gentleman, Mr. Douglas Emhoff, the President’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens, and the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States, Oksana Markarova, will also join the First Lady in the viewing box.

Read the full list.

It includes a union leader, a COVID nurse, a 13-year-old diabetes activist, an immigrant community college student, and the spouse of a US soldier killed in Iraq.