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.

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