Candace Lightner
 

An Iconic Presence in American Life

"My mission is to empower people to believe they too can change lives, including their own."

 
Candace Lightner Speaker
 

An Award-Winning Keynote Speaker, Author, Consultant and International Agent of Change

Candace Lightner inspires audiences around the world to rethink their lives, become more involved, create change and believe that anything is possible. She has brought life back to those who have resigned themselves to the status quo and encouraged others to speak out against injustice. She is a grass roots activist, CEO, founder, mother and grandmother who knows how to motivate and captivate your entire organization and rarely walks away without a standing ovation.

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Candace Lightner Speaker
 

Creating a Successful Movement for Change

I live in Virginia and one day I was reading an article about a police officer in DC who would go from school to school speaking about the dangers of drug abuse. What caught my eye was his statement to the reporter, “I want to do what that white woman in California did about drunk driving.” It wasn’t the first time I had read statements like that in articles when someone was trying to make a difference.

These days activism is more relevant than ever and the need for change permeates our society. It is reflected in the ongoing phone calls and emails I have received for the past 40 years about such issues as ending sex and human trafficking, gun violence, sexual assault and discrimination. It is impossible for me to guide and mentor all those who contact me but I want to help everyone who would like to see a better world. And I have a found a way by creating Master Classes on How to Build a Successful Campaign for Change.

 
 

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Social Acceptability

4/30/2025

I often see comments on social media that drunk driving is socially acceptable and it isn’t. The individuals making these comments may not realize that there was a time when impaired driving was not only socially acceptable but also laughed and boasted about regularly. I would like to share with you the difference between socially acceptable and now. I used to call drunk driving the only socially acceptable form of homicide in this country. What socially acceptable is – it is when I learned that the man who killed my daughter, Cari, was still driving on a valid California driver’s license after multiple priors and convictions and a crash the night before he killed her. It is when the police officer informed me that the man who killed Cari would not see any prison much less jail time “because that’s the way the system works.”



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