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Monday's DNC speakers: Bernie Sanders, Michelle Obama

The theme for Monday is "United Together." The session at the Wells Fargo Center is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.

Pam Livengood
Livengood met Clinton at a roundtable discussion in Keene, N.H., in 2015. She and her family are guardians of her grandson because of her daughter's struggle
with addiction.

Karla and Francisca Ortiz
Karla is an American citizen from Las Vegas, but her parents — including her mother, Francisca — are undocumented and live in fear of deportation.

Anastasia Somoza
Somoza and her twin sister were diagnosed with cerebral palsy and spastic quadriplegia at birth. Somoza is an advocate for Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Somoza, from New York, interned for Hillary Clinton in her 2000 campaign for Senate and later in her U.S. Senate office.

PRIME-TIME SPEAKERS 
Astrid Silva 
Silva and her parents came to the U.S. from Mexico in 1992. Her handwritten
note to Nevada Sen. Harry Reid in 2009 about the challenges she and her family faced while living in the U.S. illegally sparked a long correspondence. Silva and her parents would have been eligible for protection from deportation under Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration. Those actions were struck down by the Supreme Court in June.

Sen. Bernie Sanders
Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont since 2007 and a self-described democratic socialist, unsuccessfully challenged Hillary Clinton for this year's Democratic presidential nomination. His campaign won enthusiastic support from young voters who were attracted to his liberal positions, and smalldollar
contributions from millions of donors. Sanders did not formally endorse Clinton until July 12.

First lady Michelle Obama
Obama spoke at the 2008 Democratic convention — parts of her speech were used almost verbatim in Melania Trump's speech at the Republican convention last week — and also at the 2012 convention. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and married Barack Obama in 1992. Her initiatives as first lady include fighting childhood obesity, supporting military families, and promoting education.