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I am Khary Penebaker, a business leader and gun violence prevention advocate from Wisconsin. I built and led commercial roofing and sheet metal companies for more than two decades, ran for Congress in 2016, and served as a DNC Representative for Wisconsin from 2017 to 2023. My mother died by firearm suicide when I was 22 months old, and that loss is the root of my advocacy. My work has been covered by TIME, CNN, CBS News, and PBS Wisconsin.
I am Khary Penebaker, a business leader, gun violence prevention advocate, and father based in Wisconsin. I got into roofing at 18, started my own company out of my garage in 2002, and built it into one of the top firms in the state. I lost it in an involuntary Chapter 7 in 2011, climbed back, and went on to lead Roofed Right America from $5M to $35M in revenue with 180 people.
My mother died by firearm suicide when I was 22 months old. I did not learn the full truth of how she died until I was 18. That loss, and the years it took to make sense of it, is the root of my gun violence prevention work. I do not shy away from the hard parts of my story.
In 2016, I ran for Congress in Wisconsin's 5th District. From 2017 to 2023, I served as a DNC Representative for Wisconsin. I served as Board President of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin C4 from 2021 to 2024 and am an Everytown for Gun Safety Wisconsin Fellow. I was also a Biden elector, which put me in the middle of the Wisconsin fake-electors case. Today I am Division President at MetalMaster-RoofMaster.
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