Amara Enyia

Amara Enyia
Enyia in 2018
Born
Amarachuku C. Enyia

1982 or 1983 (age 41–42)[1]
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (BS, MEd, JD, PhD)
Occupations
  • Activist
  • community organizer
  • strategist
  • public policy consultant
Websiteamaraenyia.com

Amarachuku C. Enyia[2] is an American strategist, politician, community organizer, and municipal consultant. She is the policy and research coordinator for the Movement for Black Lives; the chairwoman of the International Civil Society Working Group (ICSWG) of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent; and a senior advisor to the Institute On Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School. She has also worked as the director of Chicago's Austin Chamber of Commerce; the interim village manager of University Park, Illinois; and chief executive officer of ACE Municipal Partners, a municipal consulting firm. Enyia was a candidate for mayor of Chicago in 2015 and 2019, receiving 8% of the vote in the first round of the latter election.

Enyia is regarded to be a political progressive.[3]

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  2. ^ "City of Chicago :: View Statements of Financial Interests for Independent Contractors 2018". www.cityofchicago.org. Retrieved October 19, 2018.
  3. ^ Rakich, Nathaniel (April 4, 2023). "The 4 Political Neighborhoods Of Chicago". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved April 22, 2023.