Shomari Figures, the Democratic candidate in Alabama’s highly contested 2nd Congressional District, will speak at the Democratic national convention Thursday night in Chicago, his campaign announced.

“I am honored to be chosen to speak on behalf of Alabama and the voters of District 2,” Figures said in a press release from his campaign. “Now is the time to energize our party, educate and organize our communities, and encourage people to vote on November 5th.”

Figures speech will come on the final night of the convention before Vice President Kamala Harris gives her speech to accept her party’s nomination for president.

Figures worked in the Obama administration and was an official in the Justice Department under President Biden before returning to his hometown in Mobile to run for Congress.

Figures faces the Republican nominee, Caroleene Dobson, an attorney from Montgomery, in the Nov. 5 election in the 2nd District, which incorporates all or part of 13 counties and stretches from Montgomery to Mobile.

A federal court redrew the Republican-leaning district to favor Democrats after ruling that Alabama’s congressional map most likely violated the Voting Rights Act by packing Black voters into a single district majority Black district, District 7.

If Figures wins, he would be the second Black and second Democrat in Alabama’s seven-member U.S. House delegation.