CEO’S MESSAGE OUR ESG STRATEGY DASHBOARD PEOPLE SUPPLY CHAIN ENVIRONMENT TRANSPARENCY REFERENCE TABLES Political Contributions and Political and Public Advocacy Oversight Public Advocacy Our Board has political and public advocacy oversight responsibility, including ensuring that management’s political and lobbying expenditures are Our COBC prohibits making contributions on behalf of the Company to aligned with the Company’s strategy. Our Board has adopted policies and political parties, political action committees, political candidates, or holders of procedures to oversee political and lobbying expenditures. As part of its ESG public office. oversight responsibility, the Responsibility Committee reviews annually our Board’s policies and procedures regarding politics and public advocacy and that The Company is a member of certain trade associations, which support their the Company’s publicly-stated positions are aligned with its related activities member companies by offering educational forums, public policy advocacy, and spending. networking, and advancement of issues important to the retail and footwear industries, as well as the business community generally. Given the diversity of interests, viewpoints, and broad membership represented by these trade associations, the positions they take may not always reflect the Company’s positions. Also, we monitor the use of membership dues paid to trade associations for consistency with the Company’s values and business objectives. During FY21, the Company was a member of, and paid membership fees to, the following organizations which, as part of their overall activities, may engage in advocacy activities with regard to issues important to the retail or footwear industries or the business community generally, as applicable: • FDRA • RILA • U.S. Chamber of Commerce Our CEO is a director of FDRA and Chairman of RILA. 6060