Stacey Walker
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Stacey Walker (born 1988) is an American politician and social activist serving his second term as the first African American supervisor in Linn County, Iowa. Walker was first elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2016.[1] [2]
Prior to being elected to the Linn County Board of Supervisors – as the first African American to ever hold that position – Walker worked to help people and communities. First, he helped launch the LBA Foundation, an education-based nonprofit that works to help at-risk students stay on course to graduation. [1]
Walker served as state of Iowa’s co-chair for the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders. [3] He has worked for several political campaigns at the congressional, gubernatorial, and presidential levels. After the win of Joe Biden as the United States President in 2020, Walker served as an advisor to the President-elect as an appointee to the Criminal Justice Reform Unity Task Force.
In recent months, Walker has led a number of protests against police brutality in Iowa. In 2020, he called racism a “global liberation movement" that could open the door for massive policy changes. [4] [5]
To combat racism, discrimination and community violence, Walker led and co-chaired a groundbreaking initiative called Safe, Equitable, and Thriving Communities (SET) task force, a multi-jurisdictional partnership among the City of Cedar Rapids, the Cedar Rapids School District, and Linn County to address systemic discrimination, poverty and gun violence among other priorities.
He serves as a trustee to the Cedar Rapids Community Schools Foundation and is a board member to the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success and NewBo City Market. In addition to serving as the county’s legislative liaison to Iowa’s General Assembly, he serves on Linn County Board of Health, the Public Art Commission, the Workforce Development CEO Board, and the Large Investor Board of the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance.
His social and political work have been published in Little Village Magazine, Quartz Magazine, The Washington Post’s The Root, among others. Walker was a co-author of Citizen's Review Board Research Brief.
Walker grew up in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City in eastern Iowa. He graduated from Jefferson High School and attended the University of Iowa majoring in political science.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Staff Directory • Linn County, IA • CivicEngage". www.linncountyiowa.gov.
- ↑ "Stacey Walker – NewDEAL".
- ↑ "Iowan Stacey Walker, a key player in the 2020 Iowa caucus". features.desmoinesregister.com.
- ↑ "Joe Biden Has Come A Long Way On Criminal Justice Reform. Progressives Want More".
- ↑ "The left gets rolled on legalizing pot — and legal protections for cops". POLITICO.
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