Yonkers Insider: Election 2020: Candidate Profile: Evelyn Farkas, Democrat for US Congress, 17th District. Primary Day - June 23rd - Democratic Party Primary.

The daughter of refugees who fled communist Hungary, 

Evelyn Farkas grew up in Chappaqua. 

She has dedicated her life to public service—

strengthening America’s national security and defending democracy.

For nearly three decades, Evelyn has represented our country 

advancing human rights, fighting terrorism, defending democracy, 

and working towards nuclear non-proliferation. 

She has been a foreign policy leader in the Defense Department, 

Senate Armed Services Committee, and as a professor at the 

U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College. 

She ran a congressional commission focused 

on keeping weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists.

She worked in Bosnia as a human rights officer 

just after their bloody war, and has advised former 

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her time as a U.S. Senator, 

former Defense Secretaries Leon Panetta, 

Ash Carter, and Chuck Hagel, Senator Carl Levin, and many others.