5th Ward - 2023 Aldermanic Race
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Gabriel Piemonte - Aldermanic Candidate
Gabriel Piemonte is a Woodlawn resident and longtime journalist and community organizer. He worked as an editor for the Highland Park Herald and a communications consultant and has made strides in community organizing in the 5th Ward, where he resides. He aided in building a credit union in the South Side for borrowers who’ve often been turned away and helped to create a program for area teenagers to get paid to learn videography and critical thinking skills.
Renita Ward - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Renita Ward is a practicing attorney who got her law degree from DePaul University. She was formerly a law clerk under Presiding Judge Leroy K. Martin, Jr. in the Criminal Division of the Cook County Circuit Court. Ward is also an associate minister at a local church and volunteers at Trinity United Church of Christ Legal Clinic.
Ward’s work in the community also includes serving on the Chicago Police Department’s CAPS Faith Based Subcommittee in District 2.
Jocelyn Hare - Aldermanic Candidate
Jocelyn Hare is mounting another run for the 5th Ward aldermanic seat after coming in fourth out of six candidates in the 2015 municipal election. Hare is a senior assistant director of Harris Policy Labs at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, a role in which she researches and implements urban policies in different cities alongside students and clients. Hare is a a former board member of the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance and currently serves on the board of Chicago’s Pride Action Tank, according to a biographical page on the UChicago site. According to the Chicago Reader , Hare was formerly a fellow in the office of Gary, Indiana Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson where she was a policy consultant.
Marlene Fisher - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Marlene Fisher has been a senior administrator at the University of Chicago since 2016, according to her LinkedIn page. Fisher has campaign pages and social media which are inactive, but according to Block Club Chicago she ran a garden in Greater Grand Crossing.
Robert Palmer - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Robert Palmer is a high school teacher seeking the open aldermanic seat in the 5th Ward. Palmer ran in the June 2022 Democratic Party primary to succeed U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush in Illinois’ 1st Congressional District but finished 11th out of 17 candidates.
Kris Levy - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Kris Levy is a South Shore wine and spirits distributor, according to a profile in the Hyde Park Herald in which he also talked about economic development and increased funding for local schools as methods by which to improve public safety. Levy has an industrial engineering degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, according to the Herald.
Joshua Gray - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Joshua Gray managed the 2019 mayoral campaign of Amara Enyia and in August 2022 was found liable, along with Enyia and three others, for unpaid wages to two dozen campaign employees, according to the Hyde Park Herald. Gray is a political consultant who has previously worked as an aide for Ald. David Moore (17) and as an anti-violence community organizer for the Rev. Michael Pfleger, according to the Herald.
It’s not his first run for political office. In 2018 Gray ran for the Cook County Board of Commissioners in the Democratic Party primary in District 3 following the retirement of Comm. Jerry Butler and finished in fourth place out of seven candidates.
Wallace Goode Jr. - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Wallace E. Goode, Jr. led the Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce for more than a decade, increasing its membership from 187 to 311 during his leadership, the Hyde Park Herald reported .
Goode has a bachelor's degree from Elmhurst University, a master's degree in education from the University of Vermont and served in the Peace Corps.
According to Goode’s campaign website, he was a special assistant to former Mayor Richard M. Daley, assistant commissioner for Workforce Development and executive director of Chicago’s Empowerment Zone.
Desmon Yancy - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Labor and community organizer Desmon Yancy serves as the director of community organizing for the Inner-City Muslim Action Network . Yancy was among lead organizers with the Grassroots Association for Police Accountability, an organization which pushed for the creation of a civilian oversight agency for the Chicago Police Department. In 2021, the City Council passed an ordinance creating a civilian-led commission.
Dialika Perkins - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Dee Perkins is a professional boxer who earned a bachelor’s of business administration in accountancy at Loyola Chicago before she went on to work in taxation. Later she became a corporate tax auditor in government and audited Fortune 500 companies, according to her campaign site. Her campaign is focused on resident-owned businesses, mitigating rising rents and reducing carbon emissions.
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